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Training Seminar - Contemporary vocational guidance - ideas, challenges and prospects. Nationwide and regional dimension.

On 28 October 2008 took place a training seminar " Contemporary vocational guidance - ideas, challenges and prospects. Nationwide and regional dimension." organized by the Lubelskie Forum for Lifelong Guidance Policy. The seminar was attended by 52 participants. Centre for Professional Education in Lublin played host to the participants of the seminar. The organizers of the seminar would like to express their gratitude to the Director of the Centre - Jacek Misiuk, MA.

The seminar began the President of Lubelskie Forum for Lifelong Guidance Policy - Bohdan Rożnowski,Ph.D. who welcomed all gathered and reviewed the purpose and planned course of the seminar.

Another speaker - Czesław Noworol,Ph.D. - the President of the Management Board of National Forum for Lifelong Guidance Policy, presented the latest resolution of the European Union concerning lifelong vocational guidance.

Subsequently, the seminar participants worked in four teams:

  • Team 1 – Vocational Guidance in educational institutions - Moderators: Dorota RYNKOWSKA,Ph.D., and Mirosław Górczyński MA.
  • Team 2 - Vocational Guidance in labour market institutions - Moderator: Janusz Bokser MA.
  • Team 3 - Partners in the development of an integrated system of vocational guidance - Moderator: Marzena Słotwińska-Kanar MA.
  • Team 4 - The role of vocational guidance in creating entrepreneurial attitudes - Moderators: Czesław Noworol,Ph.D., and Marcin Setlak MA.

Work in teams was intended to identify the needs of the participants and their capabilities, was also an opportunity to share good practices, and provided an opportunity to show the contemporary vocational guidance in the regional and national perspective.

Each team tried to answer the following questions (thematic issues):

  • Diagnosis of the current situation, its description, awareness of the need of vocational guidance, how is it in different places when it comes to forms and methods of implementation of vocational guidance.
  • Diagnostic tool useful in advisory work, the needs in this area.
  • The diagnosis of cooperation network, external partners in the implementation of vocational guidance.
  • Diagnosis of ways and methods of caring for the quality of ongoing vocational guidance, standards.
  •   ecommendations and proposals for the more efficient and more professional implementation of vocational guidance, what should be modified to better the situation.

Representatives of the teams reported to the effects of their work.

After the presentation ending the meeting, spoke Bohdan Rożnowski Ph.D., and Czesław Noworol, Ph.D. Both thanked the assembled for taking active part in the workshop and expressed their satisfaction with the excellent organization of the seminar.

Effects of work group 1 - "Education"

DIAGNOSIS

Pros of the current situation of vocational guidance:

  • Increased demand - increased awareness of the role of counsellor, although it is feared that this applies only to declaratory level, it is recommended to recognize the willingness of adolescents to be assisted by counseling services .
  • Effects largely depend on the involvement of consellour and client.
  • The tools base is developing.
  • The ability to plan for a lifelong perspective is increasing.

 

Drawbacks of the current situation of vocational guidance:

  • Unstable labour market - the lack of information about jobs, the rapid changes in demand for workers and their skills, the unpredictability of the market and lack of foresight tools.
  • Lack of real conviction about the need for counselling services. In the most cases the teachers (not parents or the pupil himself) lead the youth to be assisted by professional counsellors, although the use of the help of counsellor is a marginal phenomenon (approximately 5-7% of adolescents had contact with a counsellor).
  • Lack of real support from teachers.
  • "Blur" from the formal side - the division, the lack of integration at school level.
  • Too much of a burden due to lack of counsellors working in the education system.
  • Parents expect the consellours to confirm their proposals, or consider that vocational guidance applies only to special groups.
  • The vocational guidance is restricted to a single intervention, it is not possible to meet with client systematically, creation of the process is impossible.
  •  Lack of information base for counsellors (lack of information about consellours).