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Professionalising Career Education and Guidance in

various forms and sizes

Imagine being a career teacher at a secondary school, who’s always searching for ways
to improve career education and guidance (CEG). You discuss the current CEG
situation with the management team. You are then asked to produce a proposal to
improve CEG at the school. Part of this involves professionalising CEG. You like the
sound of this, but how do you do it and where do you start?

In a project aimed at improving career guidance in schools, the Dutch Council for Secondary
Education (VO-Raad) identified and published practical starting points and developed a
website (www.vo-lob.nl – only in Dutch) to help in this process.

One instrument that was
developed is the CEG scan,
which offers the opportunity
to deliver a picture of the
current situation in your
school or department. In a
follow-up process with the
school management and a
team, you decide on your
school’s desired CEG
situation. It is important that
the desired situation fits with
your school’s ideas about
education and organisation.
The way in which the school
is organised, for example,
has direct implications for possible and desired changes; and,
after all, educational vision and design also affect the “It is important that the
competences that are demanded from different parties desired situation fits
involved in CEG.
with your school’s
The publication Professionalising Career Education and ideas about education
Guidance (CEG) in various forms and sizes offers the and organisation.”
opportunity to learn about the CEG scan and about
developing a career education and guidance strategy based
on the current situation and the desired situation in your
school and department.

The publication can be
downloaded via:

http://www.euroguidance.nl/
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