Module 4: Providing young people with the opportunity to experience real-life work situations

 AUTONOMY

Engaging in real-world work scenarios

• Identify real work scenarios and their organization

• Identify the different roles in companies

• Adapt work environment to the needs of young people 
• Apply conflict management skills through cooperation, empathy, creativity, and the use of spaces dedicated to preventive and restorative practices (mediation…)
• Develop safe spaces to face difficult situations (tense situations) and to help students to find their balance between school and work

• Demonstrate basic autonomy and freedom of action in the exercise of their professional skills
• Develop sufficient autonomy to make operational  decisions with motivation
• Demonstrate the ability to encourage learning  through mistakes and failure by developing responsibility and autonomy without resorting to disapproval
• Create connections between school and work environment
• Organize the relationship between school and the professional environment in a company

Progressing towards professionalism step by step

• Describe the work environment with precision
• Identify the operating rules both at school and in the workplace
• Identify the prerequisites for training according the job position

• Develop communication, digital (mediation, conflict management, listening), and psychology skills through training courses 
• Prepare training courses encompassing mediation, risk prevention, especially psychosocial risks, the workstation, and transversal skills
• Develop mediation skills including conflict management, interpersonal communication, psychology and problem-solving skills for mediation 
• Develop cross-cutting skills including collaboration skills 

• Provide young people with increased autonomy
• Give young people the opportunity to respond to failure and mistakes in a productive manner.

Gaining control over a situation

• Develop a technical and transversal expertise in a job role

• Give and analyse feedbacks 
• Give opportunities for discussion among young people 
• Use the support from the managers to optimize one’s work

• Demonstrate operational ease in a work  environment