1. Example of approaching Guidance and counselling –10th grade
In terms of career guidance and counselling
Teacher Oprea Elena Alina
”Traian Vuia” Highschool, Craiova
SUBJECT: Guidance and counselling – 10th grade
Horizontal competence
Methods and techniques
Contents/Topics
and suggested activities
MODULE 4
DRAWING THE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
8.d. making personal action plans
and motivation for lifelong learning;
•Talks, interviews with
employed adults (parents,
teachers, successful
people) regarding one’s
career plan and the
importance of setting
short-term and long-term
objectives.
• Talks with the school
counsellor
• Exploring the
www.go.ise.ro website
Contents:
Career plans
- drawn after graduating from
the compulsory education:
objectives, resources,
obstacles, actions
Suggested topics:
My career plan
8.c. knowing and analyzing the
opportunities provided by various
vocational threads, depending on
one’s skills;
•Exercises, group talks,
case studies regarding the
students’ choice of going
to college or getting a job
•A SWOT analysis
•Visiting specific websites
•Debates
Contents:
Career plans
- alternatives (consequences,
advantages, limitations):
going through secondary
highschool education
/ professional insertion;
Suggested topics:
What should my profession be?
About jobs (past, present,
future)
8.e. identifying and valuing one’s
own action resources, educational
and professional opportunities by
reaching career objectives within
one’s professional path.
• Searching the Internet,
learning about
employment conditions,
taks with human resource
specialists
• Talks with the school
counsellor
Contents:
Career plans
-resources that are necessary
for meeting one’s objectives
Suggested topics:
What resources do I need for
my favourite profession?

2. MODULE 1
EXPLORING THE PERSONAL RESOURCES WHICH INFLUENCE CAREER PLANNING
8.a. proving the ability to
support one’s options;
• Exercises for setting
evaluation criteria for self-assessment.
• Creative techniques for
personal analysis: moulding,
motion, drawings.
• Tests
Contents:
- Self-knowledge:
- personal qualities and values
Suggested topics:
- Determine my personal
values
8.b. understanding the way in
which the social and cultural
environment (family, social
norms, language codes, historical
traditions, etc.) can influence
one’s and others’ behaviour and
opinions;
• Value explanation: ” My
personal equation”, ”Value
Map”.
Contents:
- Self-knowledge:
- personal achievements
Suggested topics:
- The importance of self-knowledge
in achieving
personal success
8.d. making personal action
plans and motivation for lifelong
learning;
• Case study
• Talks and debates
• A plan for developing one’s
personal resources, drawn by
each student
Contents:
Personal resource
management:
- types of personal resources
Suggested topics:
Types of memory and how to
optimize it
Motivation and
performance
8.e. identifying and valuing
one’s own action resources,
educational and professional
opportunities by reaching career
objectives within one’s
professional path.
• Developing an action plan
for an optimal mersonal
resource management.
Contents:
- Personal resource
management:
- the optimal use of personal
resources
Suggeste topics:
The characteristics of will
Abilities and success
Bibliography:
1. Ministry of Education and Research, The national centre for curriculum, School programmes for
guidance and counselling 9th through 12th grades, Bucharest, 2006