Observation chart – Example
Intervention person No. of
interventionsObservations: type of intervention, attitude,
means of non-verbal communication
School counsellor
Parent representatives
Pupil representatives
Maternal language teacher
Mathematics teacher
History / geography teacher
Physics / chemistry teacher
Music teacher- Prepare a list of questions for an interview with a specialist in a certain field (e.g.
commerce, law, medicine), using the occupational profiles and videotapes on professions.
Create a role-play on the topic: meeting between pupils and a specialist; the characters
proposed: specialist, pupils, observers.
The list will contain questions such as:
What does the profession ... mean?
What training and what personal qualities are necessary?
In what environment do you work and what is your working hours?
What reasons made you choose this profession?
What were the most important satisfactions over the years?
What were the unpleasant issues for?- Role-play on choosing high school / university; the characters proposed are: pupil,
parents, school counsellor. The situation in which the pupil’s choice is different from the
parents’ will be discussed and solutions found. - Imagine you are the human resource manager of a company. You must prepare an
employee who will soon be fired because of the economic situation of the company. Keep
in mind that the employee is very well trained but you have to let him or her go. Roles
proposed: manager, employee, observers.
Career counsellor training:
- Design the first interview of an unemployed client who comes to the career counselling
centre. Play the following parts: counsellor, client, observers.