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Career Guidance in Spain

Career Guidance in Spain. ACADEMIA 2011 BUCHAREST (ROMANIA) JORGE BLANCO (SPAIN). Previous. Decentralisation : many politic decisions are being transferred from central government to different regions (not only in education)…

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Career Guidance in Spain

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  1. Career Guidance in Spain ACADEMIA 2011 BUCHAREST (ROMANIA) JORGE BLANCO (SPAIN)

  2. Previous • Decentralisation: many politic decisions are being transferred from central government to different regions (not only in education)… • …However structure of Guidance Services in most regions of Spain is quite similar • Guidance in Spain is mainly referred to educational system

  3. Field of Guidance • Guidance at compulsory education • Ministry of Education – Regional government • Guidance at higher education • Universities are autonomous • Occupational guidance • Ministry of Working and Social Affairs -Regional government - Private recruitment agencies.

  4. Occupational guidance • Outside educational system • Objective: guidance in vocational training • Provided by a diversity of institutions (private / public) • INEM (National Employment Institute), which is being transferring to autonomous regions. • Municipalities: “Integrated Services for Employment” • Chambers of Commerce (Professional skills identification, positioning in the labour market, matching qualification with labour market demand, job seraching, assistance in self employment). • N.G.O.s / Charities (women, immigrants, people with disabilities…)

  5. Spanish Educational System • NURSERY INFANT EDUCATION (0 to 6 years) * COMPULSORY PRIMARY EDUCATION (6 t 12 YEARS) * COMPULSORY SECONDARY EDUCATION (12 to 16 years) • POST-COMPULSORY SECONDARY EDUCATION • BACCALAUREATE (O-levels) • MIDDLE GRADE OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING • HIGHER EDUCATION • UPPER GRADE VOCATIONAL TRAINING • UNIVERSITY EDUCATION (To become an university student an entrance-examination must be passed) • ADULT EDUCATION • SPECIAL STATUS EDUCATION • ARTISTIC STUDIES • FOREIGN MODERN LANGUAGE EDUCATION (language schools)

  6. Professional Profile The professional profile of the counselor is not differentiated from the profile of teachers in terms of: salary, schedule, holidays, social rights…Their initial training is pedagogy or psychology with postgraduate specialization, but “Professional Degree in Career Counselling” doesn´t exist at universities.

  7. Guidance at higher education • No national or regional regulations • Guidance centres depend on universities themselves (Other institutions may collaborate) • COIE: “Counselling and Information Student Office” • Main tasks of this Office: • Learning skills • Career guidance • Placement • Providing information about Ph.D, masters, job, internship, collaboration with industries or administration... • Personal tutorial (unusual)

  8. Guidance in compulsory levels • TUTORIAL SYSTEM For every levels • EXTERNAL GUIDANCE SERVICES For nursery & primary schools 3. GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT (*) For secondary, postsecondary levels (high schools) For Adult Education Centres

  9. Tutorial system (Including guidance in learning process) • For all students • Responsibility: Every Classroom Teacher, mainly the tutor. • Tasks: Promote learning activities that • …promote self-knowledge • …promote decision- taking • …give information about academic itineraries and “Guidance Advice Document” • (at the end of compulsory stage: 16 years)

  10. Guidance department • Within the school: belongs to school staff. • For students in compulsory secondary school, postsecondary and adult education. • Members: • Secondary Education Teacher in Counselling (1/centre!!) • Reinforcement Teachers (Educators) • Social Worker • Others • Main tasks for counsellor in this context: - Attention to students with special needs • Academic and professional guidance • Pedagogical or psychological counselling • Tutorial coordination • Teaching

  11. External Guidance ServicesPsycho-educational Guidance Teams • Attention to students in nursery (0-6 years) or primary levels (6-12 years) • No school staff. They attend by areas as external services. • Members: • Secondary Education Teachers in Counselling • Social worker • 3 Types of Teams: • general, • specific services to children with specific disabilities • early attention team (with a reforcement teacher in language needs) • Main Tasks: • Coordinate with inspection • Prescribe measures to work with students with special needs from this moment forward. • Counselling to principal and his/her team, in Primary Schools.

  12. Personal Conclusion + Guidance is aimed to everyone, as a social right, BUT...The GUIDANCE service has never been developed by private companies, AND... Outside the compulsory school stages, GUIDANCE is poorly understood and used. + Every teacher in the Spanish educational system has the responsibility to cooperate in their student´s guidance (at least in theory). • The action of the different guidance services is not continuous (educational /occupational). • Often guidance is focused on information.

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