Annual Report 2024 - Flipbook - Page 132
Career Guidance Resources and Stakeholder Collaboration
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Action: 3.B.1
3.B.2
2 New Guidance Associates
Overview:
PPLI provides guidance counsellors with relevant resources and supports to help them inform their students
in relation to modern foreign language (MFL) subjects, as well as to assist them in the conversation around
MFL uptake upon entry, and at transition points, within their schools.
Main Aims:
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Assist guidance counsellors to provide relevant information to students and parents around language
subject options and methods of provision
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Increase awareness among guidance counsellors of the range of personal and professional benefits
derived through language learning
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Work with relevant stakeholders to disseminate information and supports to guidance counsellors and in
turn, to students, parents, and the wider school community
Activity:
PPLI continued to promote and disseminate the suite of Languages Connect guidance resources across
various digital platforms, through stakeholder collaborations and in schools nationwide throughout 2024.
In March 2024, PPLI attended the Institute of Guidance Counsellors (IGC) annual conference in Munster
Technological University (MTU) Kerry, to provide relevant information and distribute available resources to the
350 guidance counsellors that attended. This event proved to be a valuable opportunity to engage with
guidance counsellors in areas relevant to their work.
Attendance at the annual IGC conference was also an opportunity
to publicise and distribute a new resource titled "Studying Foreign
Languages for the Leaving Certificate and Beyond", which arose
out of discussions with guidance professionals seeking a resource
to highlight key aspects of language provision at the Leaving
Certificate level, including distinctions between curricular and noncurricular languages and available supports.
Following a review of existing resources, a new guidance
presentation slide pack was also developed. This resource is
intended to be inserted into presentations discussing Leaving
Certificate languages at school events for students progressing
into Senior Cycle. These resources should support guidance
counsellors, and their MFL colleagues, to continue to build upon a
whole-school approach to guidance.
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