Effective Career Guidance - Career Guide

for effective methodologists and trainers of personnel within the system. This model shall
secure the inclusion of a maximum number of secondary and vocational school students.
The thematic plan for pedagogical staff qualification in secondary education was developed
by the National Centre of Pedagogy and was approved by the Minister of Education and
Science, Assoc. Prof. Daniel Valtchev. The qualification training of secondary education
pedagogues is realized in the form of courses, seminars and practical training along the
following lines:

● European dimensions of vocational education and training for mobility, partnership

and trans-national initiatives. European Qualification framework;

● Career guidance and consulting;

● Intensifying practical preparation and getting closer to the sphere of employment

in vocational education;

● Bringing forth a motivation for life-long-learning;

● Prevention of students dropping out of school;

● Work in a multi-ethnic environment;

● Work with students with special educational needs;

● Prevention of children and students at risk, etc.

The activities underlying the Thematic plan for pedagogical staff qualification in secondary
education in 2006 target at:

1. Principals and sub-principals;


2. Pre-school teachers;


3. Elementary school teachers (in 1st-8th grade);


4. Resource teachers in schools for students with special needs;


5. Secondary school teachers (in 8th-13th grade):
   ● Secondary general schools
   ● Profile high schools
   ● Vocational high-schools


6. Pedagogical counsellors, teachers working at orphanages, social pedagogical
   boarding schools, and at units providing services.

reFerenCes

Vocational Education and Training Act http://nrcvg.hrdc.bg/
National Strategy for Continuing Vocational Education 2005-2010 http://www.navet.govern-