Education of Career Orientation (ECO) activities are currently offered from grade 9 to grade 12, during 9 periods per school year, as provisioned in 7475/BGDĐT-GDTrH. Teachers have difficulty to implement these activities as they received no training on career guidance and have limited reference and resource materials to support them in these activities.
In June 2012, VVOB Vietnam together with Quang Nam and Nghe An DOET carried “A review of current learning and teaching career orientation materials”. The resulting report indicates that there is a need for relevant updated information related to social economic situations, systems and trends of education and training, labour market etc. that can be used to support career guidance in education and that can support teachers to carry out the ECO activities for grade 9, 10, 11 and 12 in the framework of 9 periods per grade per school year.
On 29 December 2012, VVOB Vietnam organised a consultation workshop to get inputs from researchers, managers and teachers on content, structure and style of the draft additional material for ECO activities. There were 30 representatives from VNIES, Hanoi National University of Education, Quang Nam and Nghe An DOETs, BOETs and secondary education schools that enthusiastically and actively participated in the workshop. The main reference documents and starting point of the consultation were the MOET’s guidelines, provincial visions and the report assessing the existing materials on ECO.
Participants participated in several activities to experience the requirements of a good period of Career Orientation. They discussed which career guidance theories can be applied and reflected on students’ competencies as well as on how to facilitate the ECO activities with students. The feedback from the workshop participants will be used to revise the draft materials (e.g. more examples will be added, a few assignments as homework for students will be changed,...). Moreover, workshop participants discussed on how the materials can be disseminated to remote and mountainous areas.
Herewith we would like to thank all the participants for their enthusiasm in all activities for their valuable feedback and inputs for the draft materials.
