The project MAKE A SMART CHOICE is designed to bridge the gap between school and job market by providing our students with a suitable career guidance program. Its aims are: to provide opportunities for students to see workers in different roles and responsibilities to show individual jobs in the context of a working community to link classroom activities to workplace experiences to carry out transnational activities to promote the acquisition of the basic skills and the right competences needed to increase students’ employability. Some of the students come from a disadvantaged social, cultural, or educational environment, some live in areas with a high rate of unemployment, or are with migrant backgrounds; all this inhibit them from obtaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for their future employment or labor market entrance. This project and the training course on career guidance strategy, addressed to 16-19 students, will improve the quality of the learning offer in education, employability, foreign languages and digital skills, will develop personalized learning paths in order to support our students in the choice of their future careers in line with their personal and professional development. The main Objectives are: to give our students a guidance to explore their education and career options for their future job, to help them to identify what career pathway they want to pursue, to improve English language and ITC, to build and develop the so-called 21st century skills and to feel them part of Europe. Many are the activities that we are going to carry out, such as: research on path and career, Powerpoint/Keynote/Prezi presentations and video related to the project topic and about schools, habits and customs of each country, etc., Interviews to employees, answering to a job advert, simulation of a job interview, how to write an outstanding Europass CV and an application for a job etc. Students will work in international groups to achieve a common goal using cooperation skills such as sharing, turn-taking, encouraging others, discuss their interests and compare their opinions and will be encouraged to have an interactive approach, to ask questions, explore new ideas, be innovative and creative. Thanks to a widely use of ITC, all the activities will be easily shared through the use of softwares, applications, e-platforms, Google Drive, etc. Cultural visits, visits to local companies, seminars, talks and workshops will be organized too, with the help of local authorities and experts of companies, universities and associations. The expected impact will be an improvement in English language, a deep insight into students own interests and abilities, into occupational opportunity and an increased knowledge of themselves and of the world of work. Working in a multicultural setting, “living”other cultures will let them understand the value to be, all together, part of Europe. The potential longer term benefits will be represented by: the final e-book on Career Guidance with all the basic employability skills and competences is a step-by-step guide to job hunting, a simple and easy program with Modules and Lesson Plans that can be embedded in the curriculum of the schools and be adaptable to students of all ages; and by a network of links and contacts to refer, in order to find a job at local, national and International level. The monitoring and the evaluation will be implemented after each meeting and at the end of the first and second year, through questionnaires and focus group discussions in order to assess the quality and the success of the project. A continued oversight of the budget will allow us to control the costs whose purpose is to benefit as much as possible of the received grant in order to have a higher number of mobility. The whole school community, students, teachers and parents, but also the general public will be able to see the results of our project. All the Material produced, links and the ebook on Career Guidance will be on line in each school web site. It will be advertised trough leaflet and posters with the Erasmus+ logo and the project logo. They will be distributed and exhibited on the showcases of all the companies, associations, local schools and universities, public institutions, cultural centres, trade organizations, etc. of the 5 involved countries. All the results will be shared also thanks to the social networks as facebook and Instagram and published on twinning and on the Erasmus+ Platform.
The project MAKE A SMART CHOICE was designed to bridge the gap between school and job market by providing our students with a suitable career guidance program. Its aims were: to provide opportunities for students to see workers in different roles and responsibilities to show individual jobs in the context of a working community to link classroom activities to workplace experiences to carry out transnational activities to promote the acquisition of the basic skills and the right competences needed to increase students’ employability. Some of the students come from a disadvantaged social, cultural, or educational environment, some live in areas with a high rate of unemployment, or are with migrant backgrounds; all this inhibit them from obtaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for their future employment or labor market entrance. This project and the training course on career guidance strategy, addressed to 16-19 students, improved the quality of the learning offer in education, employability, foreign languages and digital skills, developed personalized learning paths in order to support our students in the choice of their future careers in line with their personal and professional development. The main Objectives were: to give our students a guidance to explore their education and career options for their future job, to help them to identify what career pathway they want to pursue, to improve English language and ITC, to build and develop the so-called 21st century skills and to feel them part of Europe. Many were the activities that we carried out, such as: research on path and career, Powerpoint/Keynote/Prezi presentations and video related to the project topic and about schools, habits and customs of each country, etc., Interviews to employees, answering to a job advert, simulation of a job interview, how to write an outstanding Europass CV and an application for a job etc. Students worked in international groups to achieve a common goal using cooperation skills such as sharing, turn-taking, encouraging others, discuss their interests and compare their opinions and were encouraged to have an interactive approach, to ask questions, explore new ideas, be innovative and creative. Thanks to a widely use of ITC, all the activities were easily shared through the use of softwares, applications, e-platforms, Google Drive, etc. Cultural visits, visits to local companies, seminars, talks and workshops were organized too, with the help of local authorities and experts of companies, universities and associations. The expected impact was an improvement in English language, a deep insight into students own interests and abilities, into occupational opportunity and an increased knowledge of themselves and of the world of work. Working in a multicultural setting, “living”other cultures let them understand the value to be, all together, part of Europe. The potential longer term benefits were represented by: the final e-book on Career Guidance with all the basic employability skills and competences is a step-by-step guide to job hunting, a simple and easy program with Modules and Lesson Plans that can be embedded in the curriculum of the schools and be adaptable to students of all ages; a network of links and contacts to refer, in order to find a job at local, national and International level. The monitoring and the evaluation were implemented after each meeting and at the end of the first and second year, through questionnaires and focus group discussions in order to assess the quality and the success of the project. A continued oversight of the budget allowed us to control the costs whose purpose is to benefit as much as possible of the received grant in order to have a higher number of mobility. The whole school community, students, teachers and parents, but also the general public could see the results of our project. All the Material produced, links and the ebook on Career Guidance are on line in each school web site. The future memory of the project will be available in our Erasmus+ corners in the hall of each school where all information about the project: photos, posters, as well as the link to the project website will be visible. All the results will be shared also thanks to the social networks as facebook and Instagram and published on twinning and on the Erasmus+ Platform.