Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

Career Counselor’s Role in School Dropout Prevention

Prof. Victoria Dorobanţiu

http://www.didactic.ro/materiale

Online, 2009

Web Article

Romanian

English

The article starts from the question: „How can the career counselor contribute to school dropout prevention”?

Moreover, it launches the following hypothesis: The career counselor can contribute to school dropout prevention by raising students’ awareness of the measures (benefits) resulted from continuing their education and training in an educational unit (formal education), and by a better understanding of the students who are likely to quit school.

The author presents a series of techniques and methods by means of which the counselor can identify the real problem which the student faces and develop the action strategy: observation, students’ results analysis, self assessment, communication, mapping based on self-image, the wheel, case study, role play, EGAN model, counseling plan for the target group students, monitoring/ assessment/ expected outcomes.

The article focuses on the importance of development of counseling sessions, aiming at counseling students to choose their future career, and developing their ability to choose their future academic path and career according to their own abilities and ambitions. The article also wants to make students aware of their own interests in order to be able to make adequate satisfactory professional choices. All these represent some of the major aspects related to the present and future Romanian school to be dealt with.

http://www.didactic.ro/materiale/432_contribu-ia-consilierului-de-orientare-a-carierei-n-prevenirea-abandonului-colar

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