Engaged in a national project of the Slovak republic we are helping the pedagogical and psychological counselling staff to effectively assess children with disabilities and by moving the mostly used diagnostics instruments as well as some of their administrative work to the e-world, sparing time for them to focus on what is important -. the children.

1. National Project VÚDPaP
Comprehensive guidance system for prevention
and influencing of socio-pathological phenomena in
the school environment
17/01/2013 – 31/10/2015
Modern education for knowledgable society/Project is co-financed from the resources of the European union.

2. Specific goal of the NP
 To support social iclusion of people with special
edicational needs (ŠVVP) through enabling them to
access to development of skills needed in the labour
market and to support further education of people
working in the integration to society area of the people
with special educational needs.

3. Goals of the project
 Streamlining the system of educational counseling and prevention
("VPAP")
 Counseling support of education and specialist preparation for
primary school pupils with special educational needs („ŠVVP“)
to ensure their social integration / inclusion and success in the labor
market
 Managing socio-pathological phenomena among students,
counseling assistance for their social integration, support of
learning-professional interests, adequate educational aspirations
and effective preparation of students preparing to enter the labor
market
 Support of further education of people employed in the system of
educational counselig and prevention
 Inovation of counseling methods, methodologies and tests

4. Main outcomes of the project
 Improving the effectiveness of the system of educational counseling and prevention through
systemic measures:
 Modernization of its material and technical equipment, supplementing methodologies, methodological
tools, new professional resources, equipping expert libraries of schools and school facilities, through
creating a portal of VÚDPaP for the VPaP system
 Innovation and development of new methodological tools, processes, adaptation of international
methodologies; digitization of diagnostic processes, e-versions of the methodologies; VÚDPaP portal for
the VPaP system
 Promoting professional counseling services of the VPAP system among parents and the general public
 Improving interdisciplinary cooperation in the VPAP system, also between individual counseling facilities,
among CPPPaP, CŠPP and educational counselors in schools
 Improving awareness of pupils with special educational needs and their parents about the world of work,
the possibilities of vocational education and training, of professional opportunities in the labor market
 Proposals to improve the status of educational counselors, their working conditions in schools, streamlining
management system in the VPAP system, using the outputs of the process analysis of the system VPAP

5. Target groups
 Pupils from primary schools with special educational needs (ŠVVP)
(in total 13000 pupils)
 Pedagogical staff (1300 educational counselors)
 Expert staff (300 psychologists, 300 special pedagogs)
 Parents (500)
 Employees of state and local governments working with persons
with ŠVVP

6. Managing structure of the
project
 Main manager of the National Project (NP)
 Managing Comittee of the National Project
 Project centers – as experimental departments involved in research and development, pilot
verification methods, methodologies (1 at the VÚDPaP Institution, 7 at the CPPPaP responsible
for methodological guidance, 1 at the CŠPP, 1 for educational counselors)
 Coordinators of the project activities at the CPPPaP in the district towns
 Expert groups of the NP
Partners of the NP:
 Association of employees of the CPPPaP
 Association of educational advisers

7. Realization of the NP (NUTS III)
 Trnava region
 Trenčín region
 Nitra region
 Žilinský kraj
 Banská Bystrica region
 Prešov region
 Košice region

8. Main activities of the NP
1.1 Inovation of processes of the comprehensive
diagnostics system VPaP for pupils with special
educational needs
1.2 Education of teaching and professional staff of
the educational counseling and prevention system
1.3 Inovation of counseling methods in the VPaP
system for pupils with special educational needs
in order to enhance their employability

9. Activity 1.1: Inovation of processes of the comprehensive
diagnostics system VPaP for pupils with special
educational needs
 1.1.1 Material – technical provision – new diagnostic tools,
methodologies, ICT
 1.1.2 Screening analyses of the occurance of problem students
(who according to teacher‘s assesment require professional care
of the VPaP system)
 1.1.3 Standardization of psycho-diagnostic methodologies, tests
 1.1.4 Process analysis of activities of the VPaP system

10. Activity 1.2: Education of teaching and professional staff of the
educational counseling and prevention system
 1.2.1 Preparatory activities for education of teaching and professional
staff of the educational counseling and prevention system
 1.2.2 Developing the curriculum for teaching and professional staff of
educational counseling and prevention system
 1.2.3 Realization of educational activities for professional and teaching
staff of educational counseling and prevention system
 Instructional courses
 Social-psychological trainings
 Workshops, congresses
 Activities of international cooperation – mobility

11. Activity 1.3: Inovation of counseling methods in the VPaP system
for pupils with special educational needs in order to enhance
their employability
 1.3.1 Methodological innovation of psychological counseling in
working with students with learning and behavior disorders and pupils
with talent and in guiding their career decision making
 1.3.2 Special-pedagogical counseling in guiding career decisions of
primary school students with health disabilities and students from
socially disadvantaged backgrounds
 1.3.3 Educational-counseling guidance of career decisions to primary
school pupils by educational advisers
 1.3.4. Expert dissemination of the diagnosis issue, counseling and
prevention of learning, behavioral and social pathology difficulties
(including prevention of unemployment)

12. Benefits of the NP for primary
schools
 Primary schools will be involved in the new strategy guidance system in Slovakia aimed at
eliminating socio-pathological phenomena in the school environment and prospective
applicability of primary school students in the labor market
 The primary school will be IT networked through a data repository with 1,300 participating
primary schools in Slovakia and 82 counseling facilities CPPPaP and CŠPP
 Primary school gains online access to the data storage of NP with access to modern diagnostic
tools and methodologies aimed at career counseling for students with special educational
needs and the latest information from the counseling system in Slovakia
 Primary school will have, through school counselors in collaboration with psychologists and
special educators, secured systematic solution of the issue of pupils with special educational
needs.
 The professional counseling competence of school counselors will increase
 The offer of technical cooperation through the NP remunerated in form of agreement regarding
work performed (innovating new methodologies, reviews’ assessments, teaching activities,
etc.)

13. Examples of methodological tools for all target
groups of the NP
 COMDI - a computer program for diagnosing study - professional
perspectives of primary school pupils - in our conditions the only method
(program), that diagnoses the competences of the pupil (the client) and can
compare them with the requirements of professions
 Test measurement of technical talent - a test for the detection of scientific
and technical interests of primary school pupils
 Test Learning styles of students - a methodology to identify what form of
learning student prefers, i.e. under what conditions are they best focused on
studies, what environment is preferred when learning new or difficult
information
 Test the technical and practical understanding - an appropriate test
when searching for technical talents, who need maximum support of their
orientation towards technical direction

14. List of professional methodologies for school counselors, special
educators and psychologists, that will be updated and
extended until 2015
1. Teacher and pupil and their relationship in the school environment
2. The threats of today
3. The power of personality
4. Educating children with learning disabilities and attention disorders
5. Educational counseling and career choice I.
6. Educational counseling and career choice II.
7. What to do if...
8. Social relationships and problems at schools
9. Counseling in school
10. Social competence, responsibility and self-awareness
11. Learning disabilities, intellectual and other disorders, according to ICD 10
12. Class management
13. Assistance in practice
14. Information brochure on career choice of pupils with special educational needs
15. Counseling by play

15. CAREER COUNSELING
the core theme of the National Project
 Career counseling - a tool for social inclusion
 Streamlining the preparation of pupils with special educational
needs for the labor market - increase their employability;
prevention of unemployment in adulthood, especially against long-term
 Our aim is to improve the preparation of students for the labor
market via modernization / innovation of methods, procedures
used in career counseling
 diagnostic methods, tests (methodological tools)
 counseling methods, procedures, programs
 sources of information about the world of work, the labor market

16. Innovation of the National Project
 Innovation of the methodological tools has a dominant importance in the
project (e-versions of tests, methodologies, re-standardization of the
diagnostic tools, continuous updating of standards, data collection through
the portal)
 The introduction of ICT and digital data storage is a turning factor in the
development of career counseling system, it allows the processing of
system of information about occupations and provides the possibility of
matching the requirements of the world of work with the competences, with
personality qualities of the individual
 Addition of specific methods for career counseling, that will allow to
compare the individual's personality qualities with the requirements of
professions - in the project, we want to pilot verify the use of the COMDI
instrument

17. Modern education for knowledgable society/Project is co-financed from the resources of the European union.
The National Project management team looks forward to the cooperation
with you
Comprehensive guidance system for prevention and influencing of socio-pathological
phenomena in the school environment
Thank you for your attention!
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