The Career Project is a program
designed to enhance students' personal skills and ease their transition from school to the job market, helping
them develop their career plans.
The Project is integrated into all EPATV professional courses and includes 17 sessions led by school community members
(such as teachers, technicians, and psychologists from EPATV) as well as invited partners
who cover specific
topics.
The sessions cover the following
topics:
- Self-awareness
- Talents
- Motivation
- Communication
- Emotional intelligence
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
- CV
building
- Creativity
- Support for higher education applications
- Information about military careers
- Digital skills in the job market
- Employment support measures
- Financial education
- Recruitment and selection
- Participation in job fairs and training
opportunities
The Carreira Project introduces an
innovative pedagogical approach based on the
following principles:
- Student-centred: The project emphasizes active and collaborative
learning, with the student at the core of the teaching-learning process.
- Personalized: The project is tailored to the needs and interests
of each class's work groups.
- Contextualized: The project
promotes contextualized learning
by relating the content covered
to the current professional and social reality.
The project's pedagogical evaluation involves using tailored
evaluation questionnaires for each session,
followed by an analysis
and treatment of the results.
Student responses to the Career
Project session evaluation questionnaires revealed their satisfaction with the
project, highlighting the following positive
aspects:
- Relevance of the covered content:
Students find the covered content
relevant to their personal and professional training.
- Learning methodology: Students
value the active
and collaborative methodology that promotes meaningful learning.
- Usefulness of the project: Students believe the project benefits
their transition to the job market.
This project is designed
to align with the curriculum. It aims to foster the development of skills outlined in the Profile of
Students Leaving Compulsory Schooling (PASEO),
specifically in the areas of Citizenship and Development, with a focus
on the World of Work and Entrepreneurship. The project emphasizes the following skills:
- Social and civic skills:
promoting autonomy, teamwork,
and problem-solving.
- Learning skills: encouraging learning
and adapting to new situations.
- Socio-emotional skills: fostering self-awareness, motivation, and communication.
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