1. Counselling and Guidance Curricula in the Context of the Educational Reform in Romania
Speranta Tibu
Institute of Educational Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
Cross-Border Seminar Bucharest, November 2018

2. New guidance and counselling curriculum Romania
Personal development curriculum 2013 (primary)
Counselling and personal development 2017 (lower secondary)
Guidance and counselling 2014 (vocational)

3. Why?
ELGPN – the importance of development of CMS within the compulsory education
Evidence based policy documents
Literature review Guidance and counselling in the curriculum – a comparative study (ISE 2016)
The development of the noncognitive abilities in Romanian adolescents (UNICEF, 2016)
A coherent program of guidance and counselling
Guidance and counselling as a continuum during the compulsory education
Prevention, working with all children in an entire class/cohort
An important discipline which is focused on the wellbeing of the child, awarness of your own resources, resilience
Improving the authonomy in learning
Preparation for - the life after school - career, profession, occupation, job
Preocupation for the health of the person and of the protecting the environment

4. 5 developmental areas Selfknowledge Socio-emotional learning
Learning management
Career management skills
Healthy lifestyle

5. Personal development curriculum 2013 (primary)
part of the compulsory curriculum for grades 0, 1 and 2 (children aged 6 – 8)
distinct discipline for grades 0, 1 and 2
the time allocated for this discipline: 35 study hours/school year
2 hours/week for grade 0,
1 hour/week for grade I
1 hour/week for grade II
0 hours/week for grades 3 and 4 (Civic Education is studied instead of CDP)
RO version
CP_II_OMEN.pdf

6. Guidance and counselling curriculum 2014 (vocational)
The aim of the curriculum is to prepare students from vocational
schools for:
understanding their resources, abilities and objectives;
future career decisions and a successful integration into the labour market
and society
1 hour per week (grades IX-XI, children aged 14-16)
RO version
10/Programa_Consiliere%20si%20orientare.pdf

7. Counselling and personal development 2017 (lower secondary)
part of the compulsory curriculum for grades V-VIII (age 10-14)
the time allocated for this discipline: 35 study hours/school year, 1 hour/week
RO version
Consiliere%20si%20dezvoltare%20personala.pdf
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8. Challenges in the implementation of the curriculum
From documents to real implementation – how is the curriculum applied in classes? Which are the results and how do we measure them?
The school counsellor- support, coaching, coordination for the tutors (diriginți)
Innitial training of students as future teachers - need: all students to know the new Counselling and personal development curricula and how to work with chikldren during the specific class hour)
Continuous trening – need: all teachers to be involved in training courses related to Counselling and personal development
Monitorization and supoort for teachers in the implementation
Studies, researches related to the impact of the new curriculum (eg: related to ESL, academic achievement, rezilience…

9. The role of Euroguidance ROmania - support, opportunities for sharing, valorising, dissemination

10. Activities Euroguidance Romania
Conferences, articles Workshops
Translations

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