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 Einaudi School 2003/2004; 2004/2005

New Orientation Activity:

School and work alternation

Creating opportunities for young people to participate in school/work experiences is essential not only for their personal growth and preparation, but also for a correct and complete career guidance. This is particularly true for those students that attend a school whose purpose is to prepare intermediate professionals, without precluding the possibility of continuing studies on a university level.

Any experience, not only those activities done directly in a firm, that enables students to be introduced to the working world, or simply to be put in contact with it, is considered a work experience.

Therefore activities both internal and external to the school are, in fact, training experiences.

• Internal experiences: conferences, debates, reports, seminars with business experts.
• External experiences: opportunities offered by businesses, on-the-job training, guided tours.

Alternating school and work can present a number of problems:

• Keeping up-to-date: Teachers must mediate between the requirements, tasks and functions of the business world, and that which is basic to their jobs: encouraging students to develop skills useful in different environments;
• Resources: Specific laws and norms; setting up groups to coordinate activities in the area and in the province; appointing and training a person, for each school, in charge of coordinating school/work experiences, teacher training, and contacts with the business world.
• Organization: The projects, once actually tried and experimented upon, must be assessed and re-organized according to the observations made and the needs discovered. It’s therefore necessary to create a system of documentation and analysis in progress which allows adequate functionality.