The purpose of the act is to clarify the responsibilities of the nation, states, and schools in providing effective career education, also emphasizing the career learning right of students at all education level without anyone isolated. The Career Education Act consists of 4 chapters and 23 articles that describe the role of career education to enhance students’ career development competencies and national growth.

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Intensive Academic Year or Semester for Career Education

Goal

Intensive Academic Year or Semester for Career Education runs at all school levels and grades

Intensive Academic Year or Semester for Career Education

Provide rigorous career education opportunity that meets the educational purposes of each school level

Article 13 (Intensive Academic Year or Semester for Career Education)

(1) Notwithstanding Article 24 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, in setting a specific academic year or semester, a superintendent of education may manage an intensive academic year or semester for career education during which vocational experience curriculum is intensively managed.

(2) Matters necessary for the management of an intensive academic year or semester for career education under paragraph (1), shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree.

focuses on one year or one semester in activities related to a career course from the 6th grade of elementary school to the 1st year of high school. In 2017, there are 92 elementary schools, 40 middle schools, and 88 high schools throughout Korea to develop prior models of operating curriculum.

Through Intensive Academic Year (Semester) of Career Education, students can focus on an appropriate career education for their level of development & school level.

A period of understanding themselves, forming positive values, and having the basic awareness of “Career”

A period to explore the world of work and educational opportunities, and organize the school life and future career plan

A period to prepare a career plan based on an understanding of future changes in the world of work and setting up ones career plan

Elementary school Middle school High school

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Career Specialist Teacher since 2011

Career Specialist Teacher Policy

Duties of the career specialist teacher in secondary school (middle/high)

provides the high quality of career guidance, counseling and information to students. Based on the Career Education Act, school must have one career specialist teacher at every elementary and secondary school.

The career specialist teacher is allocated to every each school after receiving a 570 hours of in-service training program.

The teacher who has obtained the qualification of the career specialist teacher can lead the comprehensive career guidance service to students, parents, and other fellow teachers at the school.

In 2016, the allocation ratio of career specialist teacher in elementary & secondary school is 97.5%, which allows students to receive career development support by advanced specialized teachers.

In 2016, the placement of career specialist teachers extends from middle and high schools to elementary schools.

1. Head of school career education as director of career guidance consultation

2. Establishment and operation of school career course operation plan - Support for career education intensive grade

· semester system and Organization and operation of career experience curriculum

3. “Career and Job" class, "career activity" guidance (less than 10 hours per week) during creative experience activity 4. Career consultation (more than 8 hours per week on average)

5. Planning and operation of career activity during creative experience activity

6. Personalized career (job & school path) guidance at the school level- Personalized career guidance based on linkage among school life records & information of elementary, middle and high school level

7. Support on career design for students entering post-employment 8. Support for writing the career and learning plan

9. Career portfolio map

10. Utilization and consulting of psychological examination related to career education (on CareerNet or others) 11. Planning and operation of career exploration activities in & out of school

12. ‘Strengthening career education capacity for in-school teachers Training’ management 13. Career training and consulting for parents

14. Network management with local community and related organizations such as talent donation for career education 15. Other career-related matters designated by the school principal

Article 9 (Teachers Exclusively Responsible for Coaching Careers)

(1) The Minister of Education and a superintendent of education shall assign to elementary and secondary schools, teachers exclusively responsible for career coaching for students.

Enforcement Decree of the Career Education Act Article 4 (Career Specialized Teacher)

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course designated by the Ministry of Education in the secondary school is marked as a subject course in accordance with Article 4 of the "Teacher Qualification Guideline." The teacher should be placed as a teacher who has a certified teaching certificate.

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Career exploration program and its quality MGMT

Diverse career exploration programs are provided students to make informed career decision and career planning through Substantial Career Experience Delivery System

Supports to improve quality and stability of career exploration program

• Career navigation camp, remote video career mentoring, and career exploration bus

• Development and dissemination of virtual career exploration contents related to new technologies (physics, digital, etc.)

• Installation of the situation room for the safety of career search program, the central examination team and the parent supervision unit

National- Regional-School

Cooperation

Career experience

- career guidance

linkage activation Finding

high-quality experiences and

training HR

Field trip type Professional

practice experience

form

Interactive lecture type

Career camp type Major

experience type Field work experience

type

Support students'

dream and career exploration

NCDC, the R&D clearing house for all Korean individuals

NCDC drives the Vitalization of Customized Career Planning & Career Education

Throughout the Entire Lifespan of the Whole Nation

Under the Career Education Act in 2015, KRIVET (Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training) has been designated as the NCDC as of 13 January 2017. There was no history of the separate department only for career education within the central government.

4 Major Tasks & Roles 5 Strategies

Locality

(Beneficiary-Oriented) Professionality Connectivity

(Standardize) Equality Integrability

OBJECTIVE NCDC VISION

Realization of Customized Career Planning of the Whole Nation

Vitalization of the Career Education From Kindergarten to Higher Education Level Throughout the Whole Lifespan

Development of the Public Policy & Resources

- Research in the Public Policy for Constant Monitoring

- Developing the Target Specific Resources & Contents in Career Information & Career Guidance

Establishment of the National Career Information

Network

- Strengthening the Beneficiary-Oriented Career Information Network - Supporting Online Contents (Vitalizing of Platform-Oriented CareerNet)

Career Counseling &

Consulting - Providing On & Off Line Career Counseling & Career Information Service - Consulting & Training for the Career Education to the Stakeholders

National & Global Networking

- Improving the National-Regional Cooperation

- Monitoring all the R&D Resources from the Relevant Organizations - International Cooperation in Career Development

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The career education index and survey

The career education index and survey shows the degree to which the current career education reaches the target value of Korea. The survey tool aims to grasp the reality of the school that carries out career education and confirms the evaluation level on the career education contents of the students so that they can see the current status of the career development contents & delivery and confirms the future direction of it. Career education index is an annual evaluation conducted by KRIVET NCDC.

Indicator component

Implications of the survey

Provide information on the status of career education by elementary-middle-high school, and college/university in consideration of the linkage and continuity of career education at all levels (individual-organization-nation)

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•Satisfaction with career guidance

• Level of career development skill acquisition

• Achievements related to further study and employment

• Establishment of curriculum &

program types and contents

• Management of the delivery formats, curricula, and programs

• Characteristics of students and teachers

• Planning, facilities, and budget levels for career guidance

Elementary school Level Middle School Level High School Level National Education Level

Individual level National Level

National Level School level

Career education

index

Career Information Network (CareerNet)

• (Progress) (1999 Dec) www.careernet.re.kr > (2008 Apr)

• (Contents) CareerNet provides services such as career psychology, career counseling, career information, career videos, and additional services such as smart books and career planners, career education charity network and mobile apps

• (Users) 86% of new subscribers in 2016 are high school students

• (Main Achievements) 660,000 people are newly registered in 2016, cumulative 1.91 million (1.88 million psychological test takers)

Online information circulation service by professionals in the real world of work to provide the validate career information to students, teachers, and parents.

CareerNet

Open career information “JAM"

Career Information Network Diagram

Expert

CareerNet

Parents Student Teachers

Smartbook Mentoring Mentor

Information Test Counseling

Enterprise Career exploration

center

Youth

Entrepreneurship Dream Path ("Ggoomgil")

Career Experience

Support Team Career

Exploration Program

Career Information

Service

My favorite career information

Career Planner

School record Career

Planner for teachers

Teachers, Parents, etc. Student

Field Expert University associates,

university students

Occupation

School Major

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Career psychology test &

online career counseling

Career psychology tests in CareerNet provide the service to students for their a reasonable career decision.

CareerNet provides peer counseling service with the students who have the similar career-related difficulties through the "Help Me My Friend" service.

Career Solution Service is the one of the counseling services through CareerNet. It provides a multi-career solution by three professionals

in the area of career, learning and job fields. Students can have the better solution for their career problems based on three

different perspective consultation.

Check your friend's best answer!

Career psychology test

1:1 online career counseling

Peer Counseling Service Multi-Dimensional “Career Solution Service”

Middle school 20 mins,

High school 30 mins 15 mins

20 mins

10 mins

12 mins

Vocational Aptitude Test

Vocational Interest Test

(Type H) Career Maturity Test

Vocational Interest Test

(Type K) Work Values Test

A test to see how well you have the specific skills associated with your job

A test that allows you to identify specific interests about your job

A test to see how many attitudes and abilities you need to plan and prepare for your career

A test that makes it easier to see what interests you about your job

A test that you can find out which of the various values related to your job you desire to satisfy

CareerNet provides online counseling service by specialized teachers, who has been trained over five years in the on-line career counselling in-service program at in-school level. 1:1 online counseling service for clients with career concerns provides in depth and service for not only students but also parents, multicultural students, and out-of-school students.

“I am worried about what to do from studying or music.

I was a singer since I was 10 years old.”

Individual Career Difficulty Career

Learning Job

In-service training for Career Specialist Teacher

The role of teachers who are responsible for school career education is essential to develop customized career education and career development capability for students.

Therefore, teachers should have a certain awareness of career education and provide opportunities to students for career education and career counseling.

Positive recognition of

teachers and cooperation among school

members

Career- centered school

curriculum organization management and

capability Career education

and career counseling competency

Enhancement of school management mindset focused on career education of school administrators

Enhencement career specialist teacher professionalism

Promotion of career counseling competencies of classroom teacher

Strengthening of the teachers' competency on linkage the career education in curriculum Securement of

accessibility on various information

(new technology of 4th Industrial Revolution, etc.) Reinforced awareness of career education for preliminary and new teachers

Supports the customized learning and remote learning for school administrators, classroom teachers, and career specialists teachers

Teacher's career education

capacity

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Career Exploration through FLS in School Curriculum

What is Free Learning Semester

Free Learning Semester within School Career Development flow

Expand the Free Learning Semester system

- During one of the semester in middle school, the students do not worry about exams - Strengthening career education leading ‘Elementary school (recognition of career) - Middle school (career exploration) - High school (career design and preparation)’ process

- Teaching method in FLS curriculum consists of discussions and practical exercises, so students can find their own dreams and memories

- Flexible curriculum to enable students to experience various activities such as career exploration

- Bridged curriculum operation of Free Learning Semester - General Semester - Activation of student participation in class and activity-oriented lessons - The operation of "Dream & Talent-oriented Free Learning Semester activities“

- Improvement and stimulation of course-based evaluation

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03 Materials and programs for in-school career education

Career Education Intensive Grade · Semester & Career Exploration Curriculum

School Career Education Program (SCEP)

The Career Education Act legislate career education intensive grade & semester and career exploration curriculum. We have developed the manuals for in-school career education in all level & type for the effective semester & curriculum operation.

SCEP is an in-school career education program developed by Ministry of Education and KRIVET to enable systematic career education at schools since 2011.

STP is a school-to-school transition career guidance program that provides students with clear career plans (consciousness) and understanding of the contents and meaning of career transition to help them adapt to senior life.

STP supports from elementary to high school students who are in the process of transition to upper school level by supporting 4-step activities such as "Understanding transition meaning - transition preparation - change management - career planning" as senior school (employment).

School Transition Program (STP)

Creative career development

Careers and Jobs Smart Books Finding a dream through plays Wi-Fi Entrepreneurship and career path Activity-oriented career education programs Career education programs cultivate

entrepreneurship

Web page for the app, and PC that provides

career education content in various media Programs that combine career education with theatrical elements

It contains the understanding of change in puberty, knowing about a life of a middle school, attaining the competency for middle school life, and establishing and planning of career consciousness

It helps students to imagine the high school life and relief the stress of being a high school student.

It helps students to understand the meaning of being an adult, and they can learn about qualities and elements to have as a worker.

It helps students to make their career plan and to attain the competence that can help their school life, and they can get an idea of being an adult and learn about the academic college life.

STP-E STP-H

STP-M STP-J

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Step 1

- Check student's data

- At this stage, students are closely identified based on school records, career planners, career psychology results, and student questionnaires

Career Counseling Resources and Programs Ⅰ

Comprehensive School Career Guidance System (CSCGS)

To Whom? How? For What?

CSCGS is a system for the Students in Career Transition Period to Design a Concrete Career Path. SCGS is a teacher-initiated program designed to help classroom teachers and career specialist teachers collaborate to support school career guidance.

The Students in Career Transition Period:

The 6th, 9th, 10th, & 12th Graders To Provide the cooperative career

counseling service -Exploring the career aspiration of the student based on their own talents and aptitudes -Supporting the career planning by

designing the curriculum and extra- curriculum activities

Step 2

- Student's career design type diagnosis

- Based on student's career decision and career activity level, we diagnose one of 4 types

- Choose appropriate counseling area to help students solvetheir career problems

Step 4

- Confirm student development

- Identify student change and growtah and identify additional needs to help

Engagement in career activities

(High)

Engagement in career activities

(Low)

Engagement in career decision

(High) Engagement

in career decision (Low)

high school

basic guidance on basic information on majors, schools and vocations - information for self-awareness - information about career experiential activities basic guidance on curriculum

(selection of subjects) for short-term learning design (semester, year)

- learning method, attitude - preparation for school admission exams

(counselling for school selection)

basic guidance on career path to the student's mid-to-long-term career goals

(*Career path includes vocational and learning paths.)

basic guidance on curricular activities conducted at/out of school

- at school: non-subject areas - out of school: places outside school

high

extent of engagement in career decision

motivation needed goal-setting

elementary

school low

Plan execution Goal-setting

Activity reinforcement:

Motivation needed

engagement in career decision "Low"

engagement in career activities "High" engagement in career activitie "High"

engagement in career activitie "Low"

engagement in career decision "High"

engagement in career activities "Low"

career information school life design

learning design

activity reinforcement plan execution

career path design

Career design

Career design Learning

design

Career path design School life

design

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Career Information Resource for Parents

Dream letter distribution Career Recipe (podcast for parents) Broadcast

Development and distribution of career development contents for parents with high interest in their child's career education

Career Recipe is a radio broadcast provided to parents.

This broadcast contains information on the child's career, vocational, and entrance examinations in audio form twice a week.

Career Recipe was broadcast 375 times from 2014 to 2016.

Career Recipe is distributed to parents through on-line and off-line platforms.

'Dream Letter' includes information to help your child's career guidance, to students at the school once a week.

'Dream Letter' includes direction of career education in Korea, career and college information, department and job information, career counseling examples, job experience information and news.

Career Counseling Resources and Programs Ⅱ

Career Talk Concert / Twice a year Outreach career counseling service Career counseling (guidance) for all student type

SCGS-M is a school career guidance progra m for minorities:

Manual 1 Manual 2 Manual 3

We hold the 'Career Talk Concerts' to make the face-to-face counseling opportunity to the students with career mentors.

Career Talk Concerts is a concert where students and career specialists meet in-person and give the consultation to overcome the limitations of on-line approach.++

Outreach career counseling service is a service that counselors of career counseling specialists in each region visit schools directly to schools that need counseling support for school counseling by 17 provinces, help general teachers develop career counseling skills,

and provide career counseling directly to students.

Outreach career counseling service is a service to support the development of career counseling capacity of the individual school where the career counseling specialist group in each region visits the schools which have difficulties in receiving the benefit of career education like a rural area.

The Career Education Act (Article 5) (2) The State and local governments shall take measures for conducting career education for people requiring society’s assistance, such as disabled persons, North Korean refugees, students from low-income families, and out-of-school

• the manual helps to career counseling

with three groups of students • career guidance programs for support the psychological problems of having negative thoughts, less self-efficacy, and confusion of the identity

• provides career information would be helpful in career counseling with three groups of students

• includes with information for improve social competencies

The counseling manuals for three groups of minority students;

disabled student, multicultural student, and North Korean refugee students are developed

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