Individual vocational

orientation in Productive
Learning
Concept of initiating Productive
Learning at four schools in the city
of Bourgas
 Project conception
• Preconditions and reasons
• Aims of Productive Learning
• Participants and target groups
• Timetable and curriculum
• Evaluation and certificates – end of First
degree (7th – 10th grade) of secondary school
• Educators’ qualification and training
programmes
 Preconditions

• Education system in Bulgaria -current problems

• Dropping-out students
• Experience and partnership
• Bulgaria in European Council
 Aims
• Supporting the education system reformation process

• Integration of the so-called “drop-out” students and

students with special educational needs

• Motivation for achieving school degree

• Development of competences and skills for better

planning and representing the learning process

• Individual vocational orientation and realization

• Students’ social Integration in Productive Learning

 Target groups

• Students with special educational needs.

• Students from different ethnic and social
background.
• Students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Drop-out students.
• Students that reject traditional education
system.
 Participants

• “Hristo Botev” Secondary School, Dolno

Ezerovo, Bourgas
• “Elin Pelin” Secondary School, Bourgas
• “Zahari Stoyanov” Evening School,
Bourgas
• “Ivan Vazov” High School, Bourgas
“Hristo Botev” Secondary
School, Dolno Ezerovo,
Bourgas
“Hristo Botev” Secondary School,
Dolno Ezerovo, Bourgas

Rooms:
• Woodworking;
• Metalwork;
• Domestic science – cookery,
tailoring;
• Computer studies;
• Playground area.
“Hristo Botev” Secondary School,
Dolno Ezerovo, Bourgas

• Roma students.
• Bilinguals.
• Students with
special educational
needs.
“Elin Pelin” Secondary School
Bourgas
“Elin Pelin” Secondary School
Bourgas

Rooms:
• Computer studies;
• Ceramics and plastic art;
• Practical activities;
• Playground area;
• Gardens.
 “Elin Pelin” Primary School
Bourgas
• Students with special
educational needs.
• Non-motivated students
“Zahari Stoyanov” Evening
School, Bourgas
“Zahari Stoyanov”
Evening School,
Bourgas
Rooms:
• Computer studies;
• Cookery;
• Woodworking;
• Metalwork;
• Icon-painting.
 “Zahari Stoyanov”
Evening School, Bourgas

• Disabled students .
• Drop-out students.
• Young mothers.
“Ivan Vazov” High School,
Bourgas
“Ivan Vazov” High School,
Bourgas

Rooms:
• Computer studies;
• Ceramics and plastic art;
• Art;
• Practical places;
• Playground area.
 “Ivan Vazov” Hign School,
Bourgas

• Non-motivated Students.
• Drop-out students.
• Students from ethnical-
minorities.
• Bilinguals.
• Students with special
educational needs .
 Structure of the project

• Three-year project, financed by ECF.

• Students’ firm (VІ – VІІІ grade).
• First degree of Secondary School (VІІІ – Х grade).
• School year.
 School Timetable
Lesson units Lesson units
per week per week
Learning at practice sites-
Communication group –
17 Lesson units
5 Lesson units
Practice 4 Communication and
presentation
3
Looking for practice place 2
Bulgarian 2
Personnel productive task 2
Specializing education – 8
lesson units
Educational Reports in
Productive Learning
3 Person and culture
Society and Economy 2
Bulgarian in Productive Nature and technology
Learning
2

Foreign language in Productive Foreign language 2

Learning 2
Maths 2
Maths in Productive Learning
2 Counseling 2
Evaluation of Education and finishing First
school degree (VІІ – Х grade).

• Point-based assessment.
• Portfolio.
• First degree (10th grade) school leaving
certificate
• School leaving certificates for vocational
training.
 Educators’ qualification and
partnership

• General qualification in Productive Learning

Methods.
• Educators’ role in Productive Learning .
• Partnership with Ministry of Education and
Science, Municipality of Bourgas, NGO, Bourgas
Regional Chamber of Handicrafts, IPLE, INEPS.