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From: Osman 3/21/07

Career Awareness

For Career Awareness we have been working on the following areas:

  • Tourism
  • Heating, ventilation...
  • Wood tech...
  • Hand crafts
  • Nutrition tech.

These are the areas that MEYAP team and Taner bey is happy. (but if there is any problem we should know)

This Monday (26 March) will finish the first draft of the projects for hand crafts , Wood tech, Nutrition tech. and Heating...

The flow and focus of the projects is like the Tourism projects. Below you can see the overall content of the two projects that I discussed with the writers (they are working on):

Hand Crafts

  • Special local hand crafts of the region İSKELE.
  • Research on GÜZELYURT historical museum about hand carfts
  • Visiting DESIGN 74 (JOB styles, apportunities...)
  • Producing and designing hand crafts using disposable materials for toursitic purposes.
  • Seeling the products of students.

Nutrition tech

  • Why nutrition is important ?(presentation of groups)
  • Visiting KOOP (food factory) (JOB styles, apportunities...)
  • Exibiting local food products in the school for the families and sector.
  • Opening a food market (interview with the sector)

At the beginning of every project a brief letter about the project and the collobration will be send to the parents and the sector.

osman

From: David 3/21/07

Thanks for this information, Osman. I think the hand crafts area may be of concern and possibly also wood techology. I am not sure in this context what wood technology involves -- is this cabinet-making, carpentry, or something else? I also am not sure, in this context, what nutrition technology is. Let's see what Elizabeth thinks about this before moving ahead on those learning project areas.

I also would like to better understand what the KOOP food factory makes, what "JOB styles" means, and what "opening a food market" means. (Is this about what is needed to open one's own small business? Is this entrepreneurship? And what is the relationship between this and nutrition technology?)

In all the projects, a key activity will be the students' interviews with those who have a career in the industry, who have worked their way up from entry-level positions, who can describe what the benefits are of working in the industry, and especially in the private sector, who can describe the steps along their career path -- education and work steps. Students should have a much clearer idea, after their research, what the careers are, what the work looks like, and what is needed to prepare for the career or occupation.

Also, can you give me an update, Osman on the employability skills learning projects? What is the plan for writing those? And what topics are being considered?

Thank you.

All the best,

David

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