UM MODELO DE ORIENTAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL E DE CARRERIA COM ADOLESCENTES PARA O ENSINO MÉDIO

Abstract

The present study consists on exploratory qualitative approach research. This work was developed with teachers and students from two high schools, one state public and one federal public. Its objective is to understand the vision and knowledge of teachers from basic education regarding the work of Professional and Career Guidance (PCG) in order to develop, apply and validate a First Choice PCG protocol with teenagers in high school. It was carried out through the application of a questionnaire with the teachers. The questionnaire also elucidated if they knew about PCG or if they understood professional guidance from the perspective of vocational guidance. It was also investigated whether these teachers were aware of the possibility to work as mentors of their students and whether they would be interested in adding this role to their work. With these data, it was improved an PCG protocol that was applied with groups of teenagers in co-participating high schools. The participating students answered a questionnaire on a Likert scale at the end of each meeting, verifying if they understood the proposed activities, if they felt motivated to participate, if they felt that the work contributed to their reflections on their professional choice. Through the application and analysis of the results, the protocol was validated. The analysis of the collected data resulted on educational product as an e-book. This e-book presents the possibility of PCG work in high schools through the validated protocol, boosting the performance of teachers in this theme, being an incentive for such action in order to contribute to the teenagers growing.