Abstract
This article describes a Master Educator Series designed to help educators in Italy design and implement comprehensive vocational guidance curriculum. In this “Master Educator” training, a variety of vocational development models and theories are presented. The goal is to provide a broad range of skills in assessment and intervention strategies to prepare educators for developing the curriculum that best fits their unique context. Five curriculum examples are described. Each of these interventions is built around a vocational development topic, including: providing individualized feedback, improving social relationships and connections, using written exercises, and providing mastery and vicarious experiences.
Résumé
Promotion du développement vocationnel: méthodes d’intervention et techniques utilisées dans le contexte italien. Cet article fait la description d’une Série à l’usage des Maîtres en Education conçue pour aider des éducateurs en Italie à concevoir et mettre en application un programme d’études en orientation professionnelle. Dans cette formation de Maître en Education est proposé un éventail de modèles et des théories du développement vocationnel. Le but est de fournir une large gamme des qualifications requises dans les stratégies d’évaluation et d’intervention pour préparer les maîtres en éducation à construire le programme d’études qui convient le mieux à leur contexte particulier. Cinq exemples de programme d’études sont décrits. Chacune de ces interventions est établie autour d’une question de développement vocationnel comprenant les éléments suivants: fournir une rétro-action individualisée, améliorer les relations et les contacts sociaux, utiliser des exercices écrits et procurer des expériences de maîtrise grâce à des simulations.
Zusammenfassung
Förderung der beruflichen Entwicklung: Interventionsmethoden und Verfahren in Italien. Diesel Artikel beschreibt ein Fortgeschrittenen-Ausbildungsprogramm aus Italien, das Lehrer darauf vorbereitet, umfassende berufliche Beratungskonzepte zu entwickeln und in Lehrpläne umzusetzen. In diesem Aufbaukurs werden verschiedene Berufswahlmodelle und –theorien vorgestellt. Ziel ist die Vermittlung einer breiten Auswahl von Kompetenzen für Eignungsdiagnostik und für Beratungsstrategien, um dadurch die Lehrer dazu zu befähigen, Lehrpläne zu verfassen, die optimal in ihrem speziellen Arbeitskontext passen. Fünf Beispiele für solche Lehrpläne werden vorgestellt. Jeder dieser Unterrichtsentwürfe befasst sich mit einem ausgewählten Berufswahlthema: Bereitstellung individueller Rückmeldung, Verbesserung sozialer Beziehungen und Verbindungen, Verwendung schriftlicher Übungen, Bereitstellung von Einübungserfahrungen und von stellvertretenden Erfahrungen.
Resumen
Facilitando el Desarrollo Vocacional: Métodos y Técnicas de Intervención utilizadas en el Contexto Italiano. En este artículo se describe un Master para Educadores diseñado para ayudar a los educadores de Italia a diseñar y aplicar un currículo comprensivo de orientación vocacional. En este programa de formación se presentan una variedad de modelos y teorías sobre el desarrollo vocacional. La finalidad es facilitar la adquisición de una gran amplitud de habilidades de diagnóstico y de estrategias de intervención que permitan a los educadores desarrollar el currículo que mejor se adapte a su contexto particular. Se describen cinco ejemplos de intervenciones, cada una de las cuales gira en torno a un tema relacionado con el desarrollo vocacional. Estos incluyen: facilitar retro-alimentación individualizada, mejorar las relaciones sociales y el establecimiento de vínculos, utilizar ejercicios escritos, y proporcionar experiencias de aprendizaje vicarias.
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Nota, L., Soresi, S., Solberg, S.H. et al. Promoting Vocational Development: Methods of Intervention and Techniques Used in the Italian Context. Int J Educ Vocat Guidance 5, 271–279 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-005-3602-5
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