Europa: wat kunnen we leren van
Finland en Oostenrijk?
Frans van Hoek
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Agenda
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Introduction
Finland: professionalisation of COG
Austria: COG in education
Discussions in 2 groups
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Introduction
• Netherlands: 11 partners
• Finland
• Austria
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Introduction Austrian partners
IBOBB
• Steirische Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft
Graz: Peter Härtel
• Polytechnische Schule Liebnitz: Inge Koch,
Alois Tieber, Marita Aichholzer
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Finland and professionalisation of
COG (Career orientation and guidance)
Students in the age of 12–16 years
Anne Leppänen & Anneli Muuronen, Universiteit van Jyväskylä
The Finnish COG system
• The legislation for different school levels
includes regulations about guidance and counselling
• National curriculum includes the guidelines for guidance
and counselling
• Every school has curriculum including the principles and
detailed plan of COG
• Students in upper secondary school, vocational education
and training both universities and universities of applied
sciences make a personal study plan, which includes also a
career plan
• Nowadays ministries of education, labour market and social
sector make cooperation concerning COG
Anne Leppänen & Anneli Muuronen
GUIDANCE IN EDUCATIONAL SECTOR
(Kasurinen 2008)
CURRICULUM GUIDELINES:
• counselling of study skills and learning
• career counselling
• psycho-social support and student welfare services
FOLLOW-UP
TRANSITION
Comprehensive education
INDIVIDUAL STUDY PATH
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6
Class teachers
Choices
Flexible
options
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Guidance counsellors
Group advisers
Decision making
COOPERATION WITH WORKING LIFE
Jukka Lerkkanen
TO FURTHER
EDUCATION
TO WORK
LIFE OR
FURTHER
EDUCATION
Actors, their roles and
responsibilities
• Cooperation with politicians, authorities,
ministries, companies, schools and
employment services
• Guidance and counselling services are coordinated,
entails equal quality
• Clear roles and responsibilities at school:
– Subject teacher, Tutor teacher, Study counsellor, Wellfare
officer, Management, Assistant staff
• All teachers contribute to the provision of guidance
• Wellfare teams
Anne Leppänen & Anneli Muuronen
GOG in the School
Guidance and counselling in primary school
• Getting familiar with jobs and occupations in neighbourhood
• Cooperation with family
• Classteacher is responsible for guidance counselling.
Guidance and counselling in lower secondary school (grades 7-9)
• All the teachers contribute, study counsellor mainly responsible for and coordinating
• Individual and group-based guidance and counselling
• Guidance and counselling lessons covers study skills and school life, education and
training options, occupations, self knowledge, promotion of metacognitive skills,
employment scenarios (evaluation the need of counselling among the pupils)
• Cooperation with parents, companies and employment office
Transition (age 16) to upper secondary or vocational education and training
• individual study plan whichAnne
includes
the future profession
Leppänenplans
& Anneliabout
Muuronen
The strengths of
the Finnish system
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Orderliness, curriculum includes the principles of COG, schools have detailed plan for COG
> the system is of uniform quality
The meaning and importance of COG is confessed among all the actors
Multiprofessionality, easy to get the services
Cooperation between schools, employment offices and companies
The holistic approach of COG
COG begins at the 1st class (age 7)
COG actors have a good ”student knowledge”
Individuality and flexibility (personal study plan)
Involving students and peer support
The cooperation between school and home
Transitions - multiprofessional cooperation specially in different transitions >
COG of the pupils/students is a continuum
The level and nature of education of study counsellors (qualification)
Strong research base in Finnish guidance services
Policy-makers in every level support the implementation of guidance and counselling
Anne Leppänen & Anneli Muuronen
IBOBB AUSTRIA
Peter Härtel
on behalf of the
AUSTRIAN BLUE TEAM
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IBOBB AUSTRIA
• IBOBB = Information, Beratung und Orientierung
für Bildung und Beruf
• The „Brand“ for „Lifelong Guidance“ in AT
• From Elementary Education to further training for
adults, education and training and labour market,
elder generation etc..
• IBOBB in School: several approaches within the
school system and outside
• Especially at 7th, 8th and 9th grade, due to
special features of the Austrian school system
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BLUE Final Conference
Austrian Education System / Points
of Transition
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Three-tiers-structure
Counselling in School
Vocational
orientation as a
subject (with
curriculum)
at 7th/8th
grade
trained teachers
(studied to be a
teacher) in
cooperation
within
the different
school subjects
School
councellors
School
psychologists
individual
guidance
(teachers with
additional
training)
In all secondary
schools
special advice for
special questions
e.g.inclusion
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External
services
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Youth Coaches,
PES, BIZ, Career
development,
Social work, etc.
BLUE Final Conference
9th Grade: Polytechnic School
• School for those who have the prior
pespective for apprenticeship after
compulsory school
• Main issues
– Vocational orientation
– Vocational preparation
– Vocational basic training in areas of occupations
– Transition to apprenticship in companies
• Strong co-operation with regional enterprises
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Early work experience
• In school: workshops for chosen area of
occupation
• Vocational trained teachers in school
• „snuffle weeks“ - in-company training up to 3
weeks for all students
• Strengthen basic competences according the
chosen area of occupation
• High diversity of students – high success rate
of transition at the end of the year >90%
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