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CareerGuide for Schools

• Network for Career Guidance in schools
• 2005 2008
• Comenius III action

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career guidance definition

• services and activities intended to assist
  individuals to make educational, training and
  occupational choices and to manage their careers
• career information provision,
• assessment and self-assessment tools,
• counselling interviews,
• career education programmes (to help individuals
  develop their self awareness, opportunity
  awareness, and career management skills),
• taster programmes (to sample options before
  choosing them),
• work search programmes,
• transition services.

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Networks main aim

• Promotion of career education and awareness in
  European schools
• Network of Schools across Europe
• CareerGUIDE Web Portal
• Main target group
• School teachers working on career guidance
• Policy makers for career guidance in schools

? Bridging the gap between school and work
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Networks Objectives

• To bring career guidance to the education policy
  front and contribute to the upgrading of teaching
  and learning career development.
• To develop generic skills profiles relevant to
  key jobs
• To explore the best practices on the
  implementation of career guidance education in
  Europe through extended surveys
• To offer specialized support and training
  opportunities to educators of career guidance in
  schools throughout Europe.

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Networks Objectives

• To develop new curriculum guidelines
• To establish horizontal links between school
  society
• To evaluate the application of ICT-based
  methodologies and practices addressed to career
  guidance.
• To promote the European Dimension in career
  guidance reinforcing long-term mobility in Europe
• To create the conditions for the networks
  sustainability and expansion.

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Networks Methodology

• Working Groups
• different-subject scientific experts, sharing the
  same interest in researching a specific aspect of
  career guidance.
• the groups will be working in parallel
  independently but will meet and exchange ideas,
  opinions and outcomes from their work
  periodically.
• the results will be presented in the networks
  events workshops, conferences and open-days at
  schools throughout Europe.

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Networks Activities

1. Management
2. Development of the cooperation network
3. Design development of the CareerGuide for
   schools web portal
4. Working groups research activities
5. Evaluation activities (internal external)
6. Dissemination activities

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Networks Outputs

• CareerGUIDE for Schools portal
• CareerGUIDE for Schools working groups reports
• CareerGUIDE for Schools workshops and info-days
• CareerGUIDE for Schools Conferences
• CareerGUIDE for Schools magazine / newsletters
• CareerGUIDE for Schools web site
• Report on Effective Career Guidance in Schools
• Dissemination material
• Evaluation Report