The current vocational orientation in secondary modern schools (BORS) is to be expanded beyond one-off decisions on vocational orientation and career choice in the direction of active and continuous shaping of the vocational biography. The project's contribution therefore aims to initiate or expand the development of career biographical shaping skills in secondary school pupils so that they can (better) master status passages and risk situations in the course of their professional lives.

Project target group

• Teachers and pupils at secondary schools in Baden-Württemberg

Project objective

The development and testing of a modular teaching-learning arrangement for the promotion of vocational biographical skills on the basis of an empirically founded task inventory and a task-related didactic concept as well as taking into account the newly introduced competence analysis Profile AC at Realschulen.

Approach

• Early involvement of school experts
• Pupil survey on the current status of BORS
• Secondary analysis: career biographies (life course research archive)
• Definition of task inventory and corresponding didactic concept
• Development of an exemplary teaching-learning arrangement
• Testing of the developed teaching-learning arrangement
• Final workshop(s)