For ALL Students: Career Guidance Services under NSS :

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For ALL Students Career Guidance Services under
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• 29-5-2009

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• when individual student planning is fully
  implemented as a major component of comprehensive
  guidance and counseling programs, student
  success, including student academic achievement
  is enhanced. Why? Because the processes of goal
  setting and planning in individual student
  planning provide students with purpose and
  directions. (Gysbers, 2009)

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Career

• A process of a life-span
• managing ones personal potential in the most
  beneficial and satisfying way throughout ones
  life through a series of jobs.

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Guide students to make INFORMED CHOICE on further
studies, occupations and career
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Objective of Career Guidance

• To guide students to experience personal growth
  by acquiring knowledge about themselves and by
  developing skills that them identify and manage
  their careers

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Career Guidance Where we are now?

• Remedial service for
• students pursuing scholarships
• Potential dropouts
• Information dissemination
• A marginalized team/group/person in school
• Guidance? Counselling?

The STATUS QUO is FINE!
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7 learning goals of the 334 curriculum framework

• Enable our students
• to be biliterate and trilingual
• to acquire a board knowledge base
• to be informed and responsible citizens
• to respect pluralism of cultures and views
• to acquire information technologies and skills
• to understand their own career/academic
  aspirations and develop positive attitudes
  towards work and learning
• to lead a healthy life

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What do we need?

• Building our ANCHORAGE
• Systemic restructuring
• Stepping up support to career guidance in schools
  for improvement of services
• Exploring a localized and practical model of
  career counselling profession

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Where is our ANCHORAGE?

• Career education and guidance is a means of
  empowerment for students to make informed and
  responsible choices on their learning,
  occupations, career goals and other aspects of
  life.
• Career education and guidance encourages students
  to make careers decisions in accordance to their
  interests, abilities and personal orientations
• Career education and guidance promotes career
  development of students which better prepares
  them for actualizing individuals potential
  through pursuit of their personal/career goals.

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Where is our ANCHORAGE?

• Career education and guidance assists students to
  manage and adapt to the transitions from school
  to work, and in the long run prepares them for
  life-long learning.
• Career education and guidance should align with
  developmental needs of students at different
  stages of growth, thus differential provision in
  service should be considered.
• Given the above beliefs and understanding, career
  education and guidance, even in secondary school
  context, should be provided for ALL students,
  irrespective of their abilities and orientations
  age and level of study

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Revitalizing our BELIEF

• Introducing the concept of career development as
  ONE of the three key essential components in Life
  Skills
• Career Development fosters or enhances improved
  student performance, both in ACADEMIC and
  NON-ACADEMIC aspects

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Life Skills Essence of Student Holistic
Development
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New Roles of Career Guidance

• Improved Academic Achievements
• A sense of direction and purpose

• MCE
• Community Services
• Career-related Experiences
• Aesthetic Dev.
• Physical Dev.
• Intellectual Dev.

Career Life Planning
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The Substance of Career Development
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An Analytical Framework on Quality of Career
Guidance Services in School
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About the Partnership Project

• Connecting Career Guidance to Curriculum in
  Schools
• by HKACMGM

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Finding Your Colours of Life

• For the use of career guidance of S.1-3
  students
• A progressive journey of self-exploration
• Progress path for further studies
• Goal setting
• Action plans

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Hollands Typology ? The Honeycomb Party
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Training workshops for Finding Your Colours of
Life

• 11 workshops were run with the collaboration of
  HKACMGM and CDI, LWLL Section
• Workshops were well-received
• A total no. of 500 plus educators received
  training regarding the principles of career
  planning and practicalities in the use of the
  learning tool

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Publication of Finding Your Colours of Life

• 90,000 Chinese and English ISP learning tools
  were printed
• 4,000 Teachers Handbooks were printed
• Teachers trained in the workshops were eligible
  to obtain copies of learning tools for S.3
  students
• Till March 2009, around over 60,000 copies of
  student learning tools had been distributed to
  over 200 secondary schools

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Insights and feedback from the pilot study and
evaluation study
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Evaluation of Finding Your Colours of Life

• Students perceived the learning tool helpful in
  promoting their self-understanding and facilitate
  exploration of their study choices
• In general, teachers appraised the ISP learning
  tool more positively than students
• For S.3 (Grade 8) students, formulating and
  acting out the individualized action plan is an
  exceptionally challenging task

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Evaluation of Finding Your Colours of Life

• The result showed that conduction of the learning
  tool in class-based sessions or form-bases
  sessions does not differ significantly in
  effectiveness (vs. SISP results)
• The two methods might not have much difference in
  fostering students participation and interaction
  
• Further investigations have to be done to look
  into contributing factors in form, class or small
  group sessions

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Evaluation of Finding Your Colours of Life

• The finding reveals that boys treasure
  opportunities of career development activities as
  much as girls do
• Girls responded more positively than boys towards
  the career inclination assessment game, the
  Honeycomb Party
• Boys outweighed girls in perception towards
  usefulness of setting their action plans
• Boys may be more action-oriented than girls in
  actualization of their plans, if they are given
  the chance to make ones

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Key facilitating factor identified

• ? Enthusiasm, and
• ? Professional knowledge of teachers

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Resource Platform for ISP

• http//www.hkacmgm.org/isp/isp.html