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Kind of good practice
Teaching tool
There is not only attention for making choises at the moment
pupils have to choose their subjects or when choosing an
education, but all time during the time at our school, pupils
work on their career prospects.
Target group
All classes Pupils from 12 to 16 years
Description
The Baanderherencollege (BHC) vmbo is a proactive school concerning career orientation and counseling
(COC), with trips to the flexible school. The policy for this has been embedded in the COC policy plan in
which the direction and final goal of the COC on the Baanderherencollege vmbo are written. In Career
Orientation and Counseling this shows in the vision to stimulate learning to choose as a competition.
The Baanderherencollege vmbo puts the students learning progress centrally and wants to stimulate that
students take responsibility for their own career. Career orientation and counseling prepares students well
to make choices and finish their study with concepts such as self concept clarification, widening of the
horizon and learning to choose.
The study environment in which this development takes place is a career orientated study environment.
The education association has been set up in a way that the student can gain experience that suits him
and is practically orientated.
• COC is embedded in the curriculum with integrated programmes (amongst which project education
and stimulation). COC will be offered integrally as a thread through education.
• The dean, the mentors and the teachers are the actors of COC.
• COC is preventative and optimizing and the study and career questions of the adolescent will be
adjusted to prevent problems and to enhance motivation. Extra attention will be given to improve
relevant competitions.
To let students experience the short term effects of their learning process and to enhance their orientation
on the job market, as many parties from Boxtel as possible have made agreements to provide work
experience possibilities and tasks. For example, finding internships for the students isn’t a problem. In
addition an architect designed the hallway of the school and the students executed it.
To optimize connection with secondary education, the Baanderherencollege vmbo has developed
(exclusive) learning paths in cooperation with external parties.
Studying for a career
Career Organisation, (career) Gidens
Further Information
Baanderherencollege Boxtel |
| Boxtel, The Netherlands
Aims
• To help students to make
conscious career choices based
on their talents, motivation and
interests.
• To guide students to “a flexible
career for life”.
• To help students to become
employable.
Do´s
• More emphasis on guidance and less on
orientation.
• Create insight in talents and possibilities,
and motivation by reflection
• Individual approach
• Work together with companies
• Let students do an internship
Don´ts
• Push your own vision
• Think the student can do it on its own
• Focussing
on
just
occupational
orientation – always focus on the student
talents.
