This document contains activities for students in their 4th year of compulsory secondary education to help guide them in choosing a career path. It includes self-reflection exercises, information about different career and education options after secondary school, and matching qualifications to professional fields. The goal is to help students discover their abilities and interests so they can decide on their future education and labor career.

1. Further activities DOSSIER
(4th Year Compulsory
Secondary Education)
Name: Group/class:
Center:
Introduction
This dossier contains 7 useful sheets with activities to be carried out during the class of
Tutoring. They alternate both self-knowledge activities and information activities to guide
students in the process of discovering their aptitudes and abilities to decide themselves
when it comes to choose their labour career.
Target group
This dossier is applied to students from ISCED 3 level at the end of their secondary
education stage (aged 15 – 16). Source: www.cuadernos.apoclam.org

2. Further activities DOSSIER Year 4
Activity 1. Elements that influence in the choice of a profession or
degree.
Fill in the blanks using the following expressions:
usual family capabilities access
gender vocational “fashionable” length
teachers home perspectives utilization
friends High school expectations wishes
SOCIAL CONDITIONS
 Professions which are ________ and the image we have of them.
 The opinion and influence of your ______.
 Professions more ______ of your surroundings (rural, commercial, industrial
area…)
EDUCATIONAL CONDITIONS
 Academic performance, _______ of studies carried out, study habits, etc.
 Your tutor’s opinion and the opinion of your _______.
 The conditions of _______________ for certain degrees (specific tests, marks…).
 Training received, both in ______ and complementary (drawing, theatre, sports,
languages workshops and others).
FAMILY CONDITIONS
 Professionals of __________ , which are the ones you best know, and you can
find them attractive or, on the contrary impossible, depending on experiences in
the workplace.
 Family ___________: continuity of family business, willingness for further studies,
pressure after having studied a degree with supposed career opportunities.
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ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
 Economic situation in your family, especially when studying far from ______.
 The ________ of the degree you are studying and its price.
 The labour ________ of the profession: salary, workplace, contract, unemployment
rate, career expectations…
PSICHOLOGIC AND PERSONAL CONDITIONS
 Physical and psychological capabilities. People have potential and _____ which
are different.
 The _____________, although this is changing, unfortunately professions still are
differenced by gender, for example girls are nurses or teachers and boys are
computer technicians or mechanics.
 ____________ level and professional ambitions.
 Maturity degree _____________ and decision making.
Activity 2. What you can do if you obtain the ESO (secondary education)
title.
Are these sentences TRUE or FALSE? Correct the false ones.
Before starting, cover the bottom part of this sheet where answers are. After completing it,
compare your answers to the solutions given.
1 If you pass Bachillerato, you can directly study a VET course (low
qualification).
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T F
2 You can study Bachillerato in two modalities: night and day. T F
3 There are 4 kinds of subjects: common, specific, optional and “Marías” T F
4 In order to make “your itinerary” you must know your school offer. T F
5 If you choose Arts Bachilllerato you won’t have maths. T F
6 If, in Bachillerato, I do not pass 4 subjects, I will repeat the year but only
studying those 4 subjects.
T F
7 The Bachillerato title you get when finishing studying it, does not specify
the modality studied.
T F
8 You can study Bachillerato for no more than 5 years. T F
9 To access University through Health Bachillerato you will be evaluated in
Physics and Chemistry.
T F
10 The average final mark you get in the Access to University Test is made
up of 50 % of you Bachillerato mark and 50 % of the mark you get in this
test.
T F

4. Further activities DOSSIER Year 4
Activity 3. Vocational Education Training. Low level. In search of the
blunder.
In the following sentences you will find some mistakes. Highlight them and substitute them
by the correct word/expression.
VET courses (low level) train you in the professional field chosen and give you a
qualification in it.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
The length of these courses is 300-3000 hours.
……………………..………………………………………………………………………………
These courses are structured in professional training models.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
The different subjects have a minimum number of hours.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
In addition to the theory training received in the High School, students are given training
in the known “camps for training”.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
You can study a VET course (low level) directly upon getting your ESO title.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
To be able to take the Access to VET courses Test you must be +16.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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5. Further activities DOSSIER Year 4
You can access a VET course (low level) directly if you have already been under a
“Social Guarantee Program” in that field.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
The title you get after studying a VET course (low level) is “Special Technician”.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
After getting a VET course (low level) title I can access a VET course (high level) in the
same field. Otherwise, I would have to take an “access test”.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Activity 4. Relationship among Professional Fields and their VET
courses. The game of the minute.
You have one minute to write the Professional field of each of the following sentences.
This activity can also be done orally. The tutor would read the sentence and students have
to answer fast.
They teach you to:
Professional Field:
Make large tanks
Make products from cork
Make products form silk or leather
Make wines
Manage, control and maintenance of ships
propulsion
Activities related to photography,
advertisement and radio.
Activities of the industry of paper or rubber
transformation
Activities related to children attention or
interpretation of signs language
Technical revision of vehicles
Printing and offset activities
Automatic home and building installations
activities
After that, revise the list of Professional Fields with your tutor and find out if they
are studied in your hometown or not and the center where you can study it.
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6. Further activities DOSSIER Year 4
Activity 5. Arts and Design VET courses.
Join each qualification (left column) with its Professional Field (right column).
VET course (low
level) Qualifications
Ppassementerie
Artistic forge
Auto editing
Fan art
Glass processes
Jewelry creation
Esparto art
Pottery
Carpentry
Wall covering
Professional Field
Artistic Textil
Arts applied to
Sculpting
Graphic Design
Arts applied to
clothing
Artistic Glass
Art Jewelry
Artistic Textil
Artistic Pottery
Industrial Design
Arts applied to walls
Now, cover the top part of this sheet and write the Professional Field to which each
qualification belongs.
VET course (low level) Qualifications Professional Field
Glass proccesses
Fan art
Auto editing
Artistic forge
passementerie
Jewelry creation
Wall covering
Pottery
Esparto art
Carpentry
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7. Further activities DOSSIER Year 4
Activity 6. Special System Studies.
Choose from the chart at the bottom which expression or sentence belongs to each level
of qualification at the top.
MUSIC STUDIES
Basic level course
It is taught in Music Centers and it
lasts 4 years
………………………………………............
…………………………………………………. .
Average level course
It is structured in 3 periods and each
one is made up of 2 years
………………………………………............
…………………………………………………. .
High level course
Access through a test. Length: 4-5
years
………………………………………............
…………………………………………………. .
DANCING STUDIES
Basic level course
It is taught in Dancing Centers
………………………………………............
…………………………………………………. .
Average level course
Access through specific test
………………………………………............
…………………………………………………. .
High level course
Acess through test and if having the
VET course (low level) title
………………………………………............
…………………………………………………. .
DRAMATIC ARTS STUDIES
It lasts 4 academic years and its
access is through passing a test
………………………………………............
…………………………………………………. .
Once exams passed, the title got is
VET course (High level) in Dramatic
Arts.
………………………………………............
…………………………………………………. .
Once these courses have been passed, the title got is High Level Teacher which
corresponds with the title Graduated by University.
… which corresponds with the title Graduated by university.
These courses are taken mainly amongst 8-12 years old.
Once exams passed, the title got is “Professional”
… of ESO. The following specialties can be studied: Scenic Management and Theatre,
Interpretation and Staging.
Once all the cycles have been passed, the student gets the title: “professional”
The length of the courses depends on each center.
Once these courses have been passed, the title got is High Level Teacher which
corresponds with the title Graduated by University.
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8. Further activities DOSSIER Year 4
Activity 7. Data to know yourself better.
Fill in the charts adding information about yourself.
Areas: Fields which are more important to me:
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
1.
……………………………………………………….
2.
……………………………………………………….
APTITUDES
1.
……………………………………………………….
2.
……………………………………………………….
PERSONALITY
1.
……………………………………………………….
2.
……………………………………………………….
MY ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
This is the average mark I got in previous academic years: ……………………
In the current year, my average in the first two semesters has been: ………………
My strong points are:
1.
……………………………………………………….
2.
……………………………………………………….
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9. Further activities DOSSIER Year 4
MY EXPECTATIONS. In the academic year 20…/20.. I think I will be doing:
Bachillerato, in its modality ……………………………… in the center ……………. .
VET course on ……………………………………….. in the
center……………………………. .
SELF-CONFIDENCE. Thepossibilities of finishing the new period in my academic life are:
Very High High Average Low
MY CHOICE FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR:
I have decided to preregister in:
1. …………………………………………………………………………………………….
2. ……………………………………………………………………………………………..
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