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Updated Guidance Workbook ‘Op Stap’ [Step Up]

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‘Op stap’ is a series of school career workbooks on developed by the VCLB (Subsidised Free Education pupil guidance
centres) umbrella, and widely used in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region. They have a long tradition, but were
renewed about 5 years ago on the basis of new scientific insights (study choice tasks by Verschueren & Germijs, ‘06).

AIM(S) included in the workbooks.
The strength of the revised version lies in its attention
To help pupils making school career decisions during to study choice readiness (Are pupils ready to choose?
key transition phases. Which feelings and thoughts come up when the day
approaches when decisions should be taken? ) and to
study choice crystallisation (connection / identification
TARGET GROUP(S) with the final choice and its consequences?). These
questions have proven to be highly important in study
All pupils who are preparing for one of the following choice satisfaction and study choice success.
transitions: from primary education to secondary school
education (also coming from special needs education);
from the 1st stage to the 2nd stage of secondary school, RESULTS AND IMPACT
and from secondary school to higher education.
Tens of thousands of pupils have used the workbooks in
Recent Developments in Guidance - Belgium | Chapter 3 | Tools & media
class.
METHODOLOGY
MORE INFORMATION?
By using the workbooks (mainly in class), pupils carry
out the six study choice tasks of the study choice pro- • www.opstapnaar.be
cess, getting to know themselves better as well as the • Contact Kris Van den Bossche
education landscape. ([email protected])
The tasks ‘self-concept clarification’, ‘exploration in
breadth and depth’ and ‘making a choice’ were already

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