Jobland – Resources for exploring careers in primary school

JOBLAND aims to help primary school students broaden their knowledge about careers, learn to know themselves and recognize their potential, and acquire key skills that will help them in the future to make more informed and well-founded decisions about their life and career plans.

D’EP Institut, together with 9 other entities of the education and training sector from 6 countries of the European Union have been responsible for creating and testing the methodological framework of the Jobland project, as well as the resources and didactic materials created.

This didactic material can be downloaded free of charge from the project’s website, so that teachers can be trained and apply the games and activities in class, thus helping students to acquire career management skills.

What are the Jobland resources for Primary School?

The JOBLAND teaching resources, which have been tested and applied in more than 70 schools in Europe, are the following:

1. A methodological framework for learning career management skills in school, which has been created from 200 questionnaires and focus groups to gather the training needs and guidance resources that primary school teachers require to address guidance in the classroom.
2. A virtual training course, as well as a manual, for teachers to understand the project and improve the teaching of career management competencies in primary school
3. Design my future: a collection of 30 didactic units with specific guidance activities for students aged 6 to 8, 8 to 10 and 10 to 12, with the aim of working on 5 key areas of career management skills:
   a. Personal effectiveness
   b. Personal relationship management
   c. Finding and accessing a job
   d. Managing life and career
   e. Understanding the world
4. A virtual educational game to introduce and support the learning of career management skills in primary schools.
5. A guide aimed at guidance counselors and teachers that will enable them to understand the methodological framework of the project and effectively apply the activities in class.
6. Jobland Day – A virtual presentation event.

The didactic units are available in English and also in Spanish. In addition, the activities are summarized in a collection of videos to share and disseminate among guidance and education professionals.