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первую очередь, а также генерировать идеи для повышения эффективности
совместной деятельности.
Так, в плане на 2016-2017 учебный год:
- on-line конференция лидеров сетевого сообщества педагогов города и
поселков,
- конкурс Интернет-сетевой активности участников сообщества,
- проведение обучающих семинаров с привлечением педагогов школ СС
на базе Ведущей школы (3 семинара в течение учебного года, в каникулярные
периоды);
- сетевой
фестиваль
«Lessonstudy
как
продуктивный
метод
профессионального взаимодействия педагогов»;
- сетевой конкурс электронных портфолио педагогов СС.
В связи с этим главный приоритет в планировании и осуществлении
деятельности школ-партнеров видится нам в проведении совместных
мероприятий, нацеленных на достижение общей цели: внутренних изменений
школы в условиях глобализации и интеграции образовательного пространства.
Литература:
1. Программа
КПКПР РК. Руководство для учителя. Первый
(продвинутый) уровень. Второе издание. – АОО «Назарбаев Интеллектуальные
школы», 2012.
2. Образование: исследование и устойчивое развитие. – Сб. докл.
Междунар. науч.-практ. конф. (г. Астана, 22-23 октября 2015 года). – Астана:
АОО «НазарбаевИнтеллектуальные школы». – 2015. – 862 с.
3.
http://step4gimn.ucoz.ru/
4.
http://www.cpm.kz/ru/news/509755/
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АРНАЛҒАН ЖОЛ КАРТАСЫН ІСКЕ АСЫРУ ЖАҒДАЙЫНДАҒЫ ҚАЗІРГІ
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Секция
«ПОДГОТОВКА СОВРЕМЕННЫХ ПЕДАГОГОВ В УСЛОВИЯХ
РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ ДОРОЖНОЙ КАРТЫ РАЗВИТИЯ ТРЕХЪЯЗЫЧНОГО
ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ НА 2015-2020 ГОДЫ»
ROLE OF SCHOOLS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMPLOYABILITY
SKILLS AND ENHANCEMENT OF GRADUATES’ EMPLOYABILITY
Reznichenko Y.S.
Nazarbayev Intellectual school of Physics and Mathematics in Kokshetau
reznichenkojulia@mail.ru
In the condition of severe competition among potential job seekers young
people have to be well-equipped with effective tools in order to increase their
chances of being employed. The role of secondary schools in nurturing future
workers should not be underestimated. On the contrast, employability should be
embedded into school practices as an inseparable part of both teaching and learning
processes for all ages. While the role of career guiding services operating in schools
is directly linked with the task to prepare students for a smooth transition to work, the
influence of pedagogy in the formation of employability skills could be even more
significant. The current paper intends to focus on what secondary schools could do in
order to introduce and improve employability skills of their students.
In addition to being directly affected by economic, political and social
transformations taking place in the world arena, young people, as a demographic
group rapidly increasing in number, have become even more vulnerable, as the labour
market fails to create a sufficient amount of new job opportunities to address
employment needs of the youth. As a result one in eight young people aged from 15
to 24 has the status of being unemployed [1]. Thus, in the condition of severe
competition among potential job seekers young people have to be well-equipped with
effective tools which would allow them to get some advantage over their peers. It is
employability that is considered to provide young people with that advantage in the
context of a knowledge-driven economy.
As defined byHillage and Pollard "employability is about having the
capability to gain initial employment, maintain employment and obtain new
employment if required" [2, p.110]. However, such an approach to interpreting the
concept implies that successful integration into the labour market is primarily a result
of efforts made by an individual, while it is also highly dependent from the relative
nature of labour market demands which constantly change. For this reason Brown, et
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al. [2, p.111]insist on defining the term as "the relative chances of acquiring and
maintaining different kinds of employment" with the word
chances, as a key
component. The discourse existing among the involved parties is about the
distribution of responsibilities for enhancing employability chances of young
generations. Lack of cooperation and a clash of interests lead to the situation when
employers express dissatisfaction with the level of competencies of graduates,
universities blame secondary schools for failing to introduce to students basis skills,
schools complain about a low-parental involvement in children's academic and
personal development. In other words, the overall impression is that young people are
left on their own to manage their employability, with educational institutions or
employers unwilling to take responsibility for their future professional wellbeing.
Talking about employability skills most frequently scholars refer to the
following three types: foundation (basis literacy and numeracy skills), transferrable or
soft skills (ability to communicate effectively and to demonstrate characteristics of an
open-minded thinking worker with leadership skills), and technical-vocational skills
(subject-specific knowledge) [1]. An existing stereotypethatit isa responsibility of
solely higher educational organizations to ensure a smooth transition of graduates to
work is unsound, as introduction of employability skills should start much earlier.
Robinson highlights that employability skills should be intensively taught in a school
setting [3].
To be work ready does not only mean to be equipped with theoretical
knowledge in the field of professional specialization, but also to demonstrate a high
level of capabilities to apply the knowledge in a relevant context. Along with
professional qualifications individuals need to possess the following group of
competencies: self-awareness of personal strong and weak sides and readiness to take
responsibility for actions; receptiveness in a form of adequate reactions to feedback
and a constant desire to improve; being driven by positive attitudes to work; self-
assuredness demonstrated in a range of social situations; stress-resistance; being
informed about job opportunities and alternative ways of getting them [4].Even
though being indirectly linked with the task to enhance employability of learners, the
enumerated above skills to some extent could obviously be introduced and practiced
within the school academic or non-academic programmes. The next step towards a
desirable goal to build a strong foundation for students' future professional life is to
ensure that such practices do not occur occasionally but get an official status of core
elements of any in-class or out-class activities.
Well structured and thoroughly planned work of a school career counselor has
a great potential for assisting students in exploration of their career path. In addition
to developing students' career awareness through a variety of individual or group
training sessions, seminars, public speeches and other in-school or out-school
activities, the work of the school career counselor implies establishment of a close
cooperation between schools and other community members such as entrepreneurs,
employers and parents. By setting clear goals for each of the involved stakeholders,
the school career counselor maximizes the effect of positive influences on students in
the process of guiding them towards better and realistic understanding of the labour