National Career Guidance Awards 2024
| Site: | Euroguidance Latvia Academy |
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| Book: | National Career Guidance Awards 2024 |
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| Date: | Thursday, 30 January 2025, 4:42 PM |
Description
The The National Career Guidance Awards competition aims to highlight and acknowledge exemplary practices in the field of career guidance in Latvia. The first competition dates back to 2019, and it has since evolved into an annual tradition. The awards competition is organized by Euroguidance Latvia, hosted by the State Education Development Agency.
In 2024, the competition took place for the sixth time, from March 18 to June 21. Participants had the opportunity to submit applications to showcase their own accomplishments or to nominate others. Collective authorship submissions were also welcomed. Below please find descriptions of awarded practices in 2024. Translation of description of practices is provided by Euroguidance Latvia.
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1. Career guidance module in the program "Get to know technologies" | NGO "Riga TechGirls" |
Since 2020, the NGO "Riga TechGirls" has been implementing the nonformal education program "Get to know technologies", which has already been attended by almost 25,000 participants, exploring technologies and different career directions of the IT field.
In 2023, a special career guidance module was developed and piloted. An original methodology for the management of IT career ideas and a method for sorting the IT professions have been created. In addition to providing online career guidance modules, the NGO has held 14 group consultations for 510 participants with the participation of 11 guidance specialists and 61 individual free consultations. Career guidance module materials have also been used in Estonia.
The central element of the career guidance module was the completion of three online learning sections aimed at the development of career management skills. In addition to these, further activities were offered for informational and psychological support of participants – individual and group consultations, management of career ideas in the Miro application, communication in the Slack application, and networking events. Each participant could follow the career guidance module independently and flexibly – at a time, place and pace that suited them best.
2. Implementation of career education measures for young people of Kuldīga county | Anda Andersone |
Anda Andersone, by organizing extracurricular events, has made a significant and invaluable contribution to the career choice of approximately 500 young people of Kuldiga county. The activities were open to young people from both urban and rural schools, ensuring equal career education opportunities and career guidance activities regardless of the young person's place of residence.
The events "My Skills Portfolio" and "I am Latvia" were organized to improve the integration of career issues into the school curriculum, to provide a wider educational experience for students, and to develop the acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary for career research and career planning.
The events provided an unforgettable meeting with a number of industry professionals – individuals who, by their example and life story, are able to inspire young people planning their future. Role models provided examples including not being afraid to set ambitious goals, not to stop at the first failures, to believe in and pursue their ideas.
Link to the website of the Children and Youth Centre of Kuldīga county
3. Games (quizzes) for young people on career topics "Career VIP" | Kristīne Aizpurve |
While conducting career guidance classes on a daily basis, Kristīne Aizpurve realized that career guidance issues are not always easy for students to perceive. After a long school day, it is also difficult for students to even pay attention.
Kristīne Aizpurve found a way to succeed! She created a quiz modelled after a popular television gameshow and named it the "Career VIP"
The game can be played individually, in pairs, in groups, and among teams of classes. The game can be conducted by a career counsellor, a class teacher, a subject teacher, and the students themselves. The game can be played both in person and remotely. The game allows you to choose the topic and complexity of the question. It allows you to gain not only knowledge of career support topics, but also develop cooperation skills, the ability to discuss, argue, agree, react quickly, listen, get to know yourself and others. It is a game where you can win and you can also lose, but everyone wins!
There are two versions of the game, targeted at students in grades 8-9 and students in grades 11-12. It is also very important that the businesses and notable individuals of Madona region are promoted within the framework of the game.
Link to the game for students in grades 8-9
Link to the game for students in grades 11-12