Educational/Vocational counselling enables students develop a knowledge base and raising self-esteem by providing information that empowers them with regard to making decisions about what direction their future might go.
The aims of the Guidance programme in St Mary's CBS are:
· To assist students as they make informed decisions with regards to careers/education.
· Foster a sense of personal responsibility for identifying future educational/vocational goals.
· Provide experiences that promote career development and prepare students for the transition to work/higher education.
· Focus on an individual’s strength and potentials so as to create a strategy for Promoting discussion of student’s educational/careers development in order to discourage excuses for irresponsible action.
· Introduce and foster a process of evaluating realistically, attainable career/higher education goals.
· Encourage the pupils to define expectations.
Educational
Subject choice
Implications of 1st yr choices for Senior Cycle and Third level.
Careers