This document is a questionnaire to guide students in choosing their next steps after lower secondary school. It contains questions to help students reflect on their interests, strengths, and weaknesses. It also contains questions to help students learn about different career and school options. The goal is to help students make an informed choice about their higher secondary education and future career path through self-reflection and research.

1. SCHOOL CHOICE - Questionnaire
Purpose
The tool guides students on their choice of higher secondary school/labour market and
stimulates discussion between students and families in order to facilitate the students’
choice.
Target Group
Students of the last year of lower secondary school (14 years old)
Questionnaire
QUESTIONNAIRE N°2
1) EXPLORATION OF ONSELF’: “HOW AM I?”
o Which are your favorite subjects, where do you succeed better? why?
o Which subjects do you neglect? why?
o Which are your strong points?
o Which are yourweaknesses?
o Which aspects of yourself could you improve?
o Which aspects about yourself do you want to improve?
o Which are your qualities and attitudes, your interests?
o How do you imagine yourself “as grown-up”?
o Your “ideal job” should be…should have…
o People that know you well (family, friends, teachers) think that …
o Do you agree with the view they have about you? yes, why? no, why?
o Are you willing to accept the suggestions and indications supplied by your teachers
and parents?
2) INQUIRING ABOUT CAREERS AND SCHOOLS
A. Careers:
o Which professional environments do you know?
o Are there any that you would like to get to know better?
o Are there any that interest you most? why?
o Do you know which activities are carried out in these careers?
B. Schools

2. o Are you aware of the schools that there are on your territory?
o Do you know the educational and training orientation they have?
o Do you know which training and working possibilities the different schools have?
o Are you willing to participate to “open days” organized by high schools?
o Are you willing to move as long as you can attend a school that is really of your
interest and that is “made for you”?
3) PLAN YOURSELF: “GIVE YOUR IDEAS AN ORDER AND TRY TO ELABORATE A
STUDY AND WORK PROJECT?”
o Are you able to correlate the knowledge that you have about yourself and the
information acquired in the guidance course that you have done up to now?
o Are you able to correlate the knowledge that you have about yourself and the
information acquired for a conscious choice of high school?
o Are you able to correlate the professional environment that interests you and the
information gathered to understand which training course can bring you closer to
the professional fields you have greater interest in ?
o Are you able to correlate the knowledge you have about yourself and the
information acquired to understand in which professional environment you would be
interested in working in when you “grow up”?
o Are you able to identify the strengths and the constraints concerning the
professional environment that you are interested in?