Career Guiding has become more difficult than ever before: a more complex and rapid changing future, access to programmes worldwide and very varied offers make the role of career advisor at schools a real challenging job.
Whether you are an experienced counsellor or new to the role, whether your school places great emphasis on career guiding or you can only dedicate a few hours a week, this first learning and networking event aims to share best practice, unite for collaboration and learn together. We hope to engage a mix of experienced and new school counsellors as well as counsellors from a variety of schools.
We expect this training day will become an ongoing annual development day for school counsellors in Spain but also and equally important, an opportunity for counsellors to meet and learn from each other and build a community of support that will reduce their stress in a very lonely and highly stressful profession.
Provisional programme
| TIME | ||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Arrival and registration | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome and introductions | |
| 09:30 - 10:15 |
Global trends in international HE student recruitment, what are the careers of the future? |
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| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 - 11:30 |
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Practices in Futures Counselling |
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| 11:30 - 12:15 |
Parallel sessions |
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| Workshop 1: Helping your students write a successful application letter Kara Madden, Madden Ed consulting |
Workshop 2: Writing a successful school reference Laura Nohr, Brains |
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| 12:15 - 13:00 | Managing families and students expectations and stress (high but realistic) Sharon Conlisk and Arren Sutkliffe, British Council School |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:05 - 14:35 | General overview of admission systems in UK - including any changes for 2023 onwards Carolina Jiménez, British Council |
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| 14:35 - 15:10 | Parallel sessions | |
| Presentation 1:
General overview of admission systems in USA – including any changes for 2023 onwards |
Presentation 2 :
General overview of admission systems in Germany – including any changes for 2023 onwards |
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| 15:15 - 15:35 |
Study in Netherlands |
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| 15:40 - 16:00 |
Looking to the future. Conclusions and closing up. |
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Note: date may be moved to May if we do not get a minimum of 30 school counsellors interested. This session is open to international and local schools alike.