self-evaluation

Workshop on evaluation at the final organizational meeting

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Structure of self-evaluation:

 
 

Fit For Job – Evaluation, Riga State Gymnasium No 3

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Macro-level – Educational politics (as a general framework)

Past – what we had

  • State Employment Agency and their career consultants (mainly oriented to unemployed people)
  • Career consultants in Universities – Career centres
  • State Education Development Agency – brochures and handbooks about career education in schools
  • Education of interests (mainly connected with arts and sports) 
  • Career consultant – a Master’s programme in Universities.

Present – what we have developed

  • Career education becomes more and more important – a Concept of Career Education in Riga is being developed at the moment. 
  • Career consultants start to appear in some schools.
  • Career education needs to be included in the curriculum.
  • Money is spent on courses for unemployed people, but instead it should be invested in career education in order to decrease their amount in the future.

Future tendencies and sustainability

  • One centralised approach to career education in Latvia in which all the institutions had clear responsibilities and could support schools – the cornerstones of career education. 
  • Every school needs a full-time career consultant (bigger schools – 500+ students – even 2 consultants) and individual career orientation concept based on the centralised one. 
 

Meso-level – International relations, strategic partnerships

Past – what we had

  • Cooperation with Junior Achievement Latvia and some companies in a Job Shadowing Day (one day per year).
  • Individual initiatives related to career education from universities (opening days).

Present – what we have developed

  • European project – Youth Guarantee – to combat youth unemployment in the country. 
  • Our project Fit For Job.

Future tendencies and sustainability

  • A bigger involvement and willingness of the companies (not just once a year) to have students not just as visitors but also as workers (during internships). That would help to attract future employees.

 

Micro-level – Projects in school

Past – what we had

  • Cooperation with Junior Achievement Latvia and some companies in a Job Shadowing Day (one day per year), students’ companies, TITAN business simulation game.
  • Teachers’ and students’ individual initiatives:
  • Christmas market (goods from students’ companies) 
  • Learning excursions to companies and universities

Present – what we have developed

  • Career consultant – full-time
  • 24h long courses mainly for class teachers - Career education in secondary schools (agreed on 26.08.2015, Riga Nr.RIIMC-15-247) in order to develop teachers’ understanding of career orientation and career education.
  • A Career Orientation Concept of Riga State Gymnasium No.3.
  • Integrated career education in the lessons once a month.
  • Materials for career orientation in class lessons (fully – primary level; partly, are being updated – secondary level).
  • 24 students, 5 teachers, 1 career consultant and a principal got an international experience (involving intercultural competence and foreign language skills) and career orientation experience by participating in the project Fit For Job.
  • Organized a conference for class teachers and all teachers at school to distribute the career education materials and the Concept itself as well as report the results of the project (30.08.2016)

Future tendencies and sustainability

  • Update the schools Career Orientation Concept when the Concept of Career Education in Riga is developed.
  • Continue integration of career orientation in the class lessons and monitor its effectiveness.
  • Integrate career education in subject lessons (at least one lesson once a month). 
  • Share our experience with other schools.
 

Fit For Job – Evaluation, Liceo “Giuseppe Cevolani” Cento

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Macro-level – Educational politics (as a general framework)

Past – what we had

  • “Informa Giovani”: Counselling service of the town of Cento for young people
  • Career consultants in Universities – Career centres
  • Regional Education Development Agency in Bologna (Italy)– Career counselling (mostly for unemployed people)  brochures and handbooks about career education in schools
  • Career and Counselling service at our school performed by a teacher, sometimes without specific training.
     

Present – what we have developed

  • Career education becomes more and more important – a Concept of Career Education in Italy is being developed at the moment as “Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro”.
  • Career consulting agencies start to cooperate with schools.
  • Career education needs to be included in the curriculum.
     

Future tendencies and sustainability

  • One centralised approach to career education in Italy  in which all the institutions had clear responsibilities and could support schools – the cornerstones of career education.
  • Introduction of a trained career consultant in school
 

Meso-level – International relations, strategic partnerships

Past – what we had

  • International exchange projects
  • Cooperation with universities abroad

Present – what we have developed

  • European project – Youth Guarantee – to combat youth unemployment in the country.
  • Erasmus Plus project Fit For Job.

Future tendencies and sustainability

  • A bigger involvement and willingness of teachers to take part in the project
  • Help from central school board to build up a network of companies, which are willing to host pupils in internships

 

Micro-level – Projects in school

Past – what we had

  • Teachers’ and students’ individual initiatives:
    • Learning excursions to companies, Job exhibitions and universities
  • Individual initiatives related to:
    • career education from universities (opening days).
    • Job shadowing (60 hours a year) at some companies, public offices, schools, Kindergarten, libraries
       

Present – what we have developed

  • Career consultant – only for a few hours a year
  • Cooperation with Counselling agencies in order to develop teachers’ understanding of career orientation and career education.
  • A Career Orientation Concept of Liceo “G. Cevolani”
  • Modules of Integrated career education in the lessons
  • Materials for career orientation in class lessons secondary level.
  • 24 students, 7 teachers got an international experience (involving intercultural competence and foreign language skills) and career orientation experience by participating in the project Fit For Job.
  • Organized a conference for class teachers and all teachers at school to distribute the career education materials and the Concept itself as well as report the results of the project (1.09.16)
     

Future tendencies and sustainability

  • Get a deeper insight into the different school systems, organizations and structures;
  • Improve soft skills of teachers and pupils, involved in career orientation
  • Implement orientation activities to career and university studies referring to the German and Latvian model;
  • Develop new concepts and activities such as meeting with experts from universities, with representative of political institution