School-work. Experience at the high school E.Q. Visconti di Roma (Education Science. Laboratory)
I participated in the latest edition of "Tuttolavoro", the event organized in Milan from Sole24Ore now in its fourth edition, which saw once again experts, politicians and entrepreneurs confront sull'ennesimo cycle of reforms of the Labour Market. One of the topics discussed was the Educational and vocational guidance.
Orient literally means "to discover the East", ie the place where the sun rises, basic reference point for travelers of all time.A explorer-respecting must learn to find the right course to achieve the target fixed.
Garzanti for the educational and vocational guidance is "a set of procedures that tend to ascertain the attitudes of a person to direct it to the choice of a school or a job". For the Treccani is "the set of processes designed to help young people to choose the profession more responsive to the ideal that wants to reach, taking account of his personality and talents psychophysical, the conditions of the labor market, the family's economic situation and social conditions, ripartendone the task between different agents: Educators, doctors, psychologists ".
Until a few years ago was the individual school, with the family, who drove the boy reached the end of compulsory education, the choice of school, according to the experts wrong orientation modes that led to giving greater importance to profit and behavior, giving little to the professional vocation of the single guy, or even that ugly expression "I chose the school closest to home", with the result of failures and disappointments traumatic.
Today with the continuing reforms has got to have schools that were equipped with a teacher
"Counselor" act to manage the process of orientation, that can not be reduced more by the end of schooling but of three years in order to accompany the boy for a period sufficient to identify the qualities and skills needed to identify the right path following school.
But it is not enough only the good will of the teachers "advisors", serves collaboration maybe doing network (think of Local Authorities, Business associations, Chambers of Commerce, Regional Education Offices, etc.), as already happens in some Italian provinces with the signing of memoranda of understanding to implement training activities intended orientation to teachers, to students and their families.
The work explained to the boys
Network collaboration that is becoming increasingly important in a country that sees one hand growing unemployment, now in a double-digit percentage (13,40% State - novembre 2014), and with other companies that they can not find workers to their growth (Unioncamere speaks to the lack of thousands of job profiles: engineers – computer – tlc).
Alex Gaetani
Director of Training VCO Scrl. (Educational and Vocational Guidance - Agency for work) - In office for the three 2012-2015