1. Avoid the blindness of junior high school graduates in further studies and employment.
In China's nine-year compulsory education system, junior high school graduates are faced with the first choice in life-ordinary high school, secondary vocational school or employment. In recent years, the competition for the senior high school entrance examination has become increasingly fierce, and the competition for attending high schools, especially key high schools, is higher than that for the college entrance examination. The grim situation of senior high school entrance examination makes junior high school students face a major choice of development direction: further education or employment? If you go to school, do you want to take an ordinary high school or choose a vocational school? If you enter a vocational school, what major do you choose? If you are employed, what kind of occupation do you engage in? This is a problem that every junior high school graduate must consider. Due to the lack of relevant guidance, junior high school students are blind in their choice of further studies and majors.
In terms of further education, although it has become more and more difficult for college students and graduate students to find jobs in recent years, entering high school and going to college is still the "only choice" in the hearts of many students and parents. Every year, many students choose learning opportunities that are beneficial to their long-term development, but blindly give up secondary vocational schools and choose ordinary high schools.
Even if you choose a secondary vocational school, there is great blindness in choosing a major. After graduating from junior high school, I am directly employed, and my career choice is also to follow the crowd or listen to my parents. Many students lack thinking about career development. Junior high school graduates who are directly employed lack skills and have low competitiveness.
Because career education is almost blank in primary and junior high schools. Junior high school students lack the guidance and education of career planning ability, and they don't know much about social occupation and themselves. Most junior high school students are vague about their future orientation and lack a clear estimate of what they will do in the future. The utilitarian nature of education hinders junior high school students from making effective career planning. In order to improve their popularity, some junior high schools blindly pursue school education with the highest enrollment rate, the highest enrollment rate and the highest score. On the one hand, it obliterates children's talents and interests, on the other hand, it leads students to a narrow life path.
The unconsciousness of junior high school graduates in employment, further education and future development is a problem that must be solved to guide students' healthy growth.
2. Improve junior high school students' self-awareness and self-control ability.
Junior high school students are in adolescence and early youth, which is a transitional period from childhood (infancy) to adolescence (maturity), an important period of people's socialization and a critical period of self-awareness development. They are in the psychological "weaning period" (also known as "crisis period" and "self-discovery period"), so their self-awareness presents duality. That is, independence and naivety coexist, self-esteem and inferiority coexist, atresia and openness coexist, and poor self-control ability and self-awareness coexist.
Self-awareness is a person's multi-faceted and multi-level cognition and evaluation of himself and his relationship with the surrounding environment. It is the sum of all the thoughts, feelings and attitudes of individuals towards themselves, including self-awareness, self-experience and self-regulation. That is to be aware of your own perception, thinking and experience, your own goals, plans and actions, and why you should do this instead of doing that, what the consequences will be, and how to adjust your actions. Self-awareness can affect students' choice of activities and their persistence in behavior, their attitude towards difficulties, and the formation and performance of their emotions and behavior habits in the process of activities.
Improving students' self-awareness level can make students be good at adjusting and cultivating their non-intelligence factors, and motivate students to study hard and study hard; Be good at setting suitable goals for yourself; Be good at choosing methods and measures that suit you and strive to achieve your goals; Good at supervising, regulating and monitoring compliance; Be good at summing up the experience and lessons of success or failure, so as to take remedial measures and improve methods to achieve a new understanding of thinking and learning activities. Therefore, the cultivation of students' self-awareness can mobilize students' initiative, consciousness and autonomy, give full play to students' main role, improve learning efficiency, cultivate learning ability, make students enjoy it, achieve success in learning and promote their all-round development.
Career can be divided into five stages: growth period (from birth to 14 years old), exploration period (15 to 24 years old), establishment period (25 to 44 years old), maintenance period (45 to 65 years old) and decline period (over 65 years old). Junior high school students are in the period of career growth and exploration, which is a critical period for their psychological and physical maturity. They are full of expectations and fantasies about their future life, and begin to know themselves, their interests, abilities and opportunities. Some junior high school students began to pay attention to and explore the significance of their career and future development, and imagine the future.
It is an important content of career education to know oneself from the perspective of society and occupation and improve students' self-awareness. Junior high school students are in a critical period to improve their self-awareness. Taking career education as the main channel to carry out various forms of career education can not only meet the needs of junior high school students to improve their self-awareness, but also conform to the laws of physical and mental development of junior high school students, which plays an irreplaceable role in stabilizing the normal teaching order of junior high school students, mobilizing their enthusiasm and improving their quality in a large area.
3. Feasible and specific goals can motivate all kinds of students.
It is an important task of vocational education to guide students to combine their own characteristics, family reality and the needs of economic and social development, and to establish the short-term goal of "reaching by one jump" and the realistic long-term goal that can inspire them to fight for it.
This development goal with strong feasibility and maneuverability can guide students' self-development and encourage all kinds of junior high school students from their own characteristics and existing foundation.
First of all, it is conducive to guiding the reconstruction of the dynamic mechanism of underachievers. Some students encounter difficulties in their studies, gradually lose confidence in their learning ability, feel hopeless about the future, let themselves drift and give up on themselves. Such students have poor consciousness and often become "black sheep" in the class. Career education can help such students find their own strengths and extraordinary intelligence, realize the true meaning of "doing the best in their own profession", establish a career ideal that conforms to their own characteristics, and form a consciousness of regulating their behavior in order to realize this ideal.
Secondly, it helps to urge middle school students to catch up. Such students are less than the upper class, more than the lower class, and lack motivation. Vocational education can broaden their horizons and make them realize that with some efforts, they can find a more ideal position in the colorful professional world.
Third, going to the next level is conducive to promoting the top students to fight for it. Most of these students' goals are to be admitted to universities, and they are self-motivated and self-conscious, but some of them will be narcissistic and conceited. Career education can make them turn their eyes to the society and strive to improve themselves in the understanding of the outside world in order to achieve higher goals. From a close point of view, the understanding of society, occupation and oneself is also conducive to choosing to study liberal arts and science soon after entering high school.
In short, the formation of life goals that meet their own conditions will help all kinds of students improve on the original basis, help junior high school students consciously regulate their own behavior, help junior high school students develop their personality, and help junior high school students make up for their weaknesses.
4. It is conducive to the formation of the concept of lifelong learning and guides junior high school students to cherish school life.
Occupation evolves with the progress of science and technology and the development of economy and society. Not only the replacement of old and new occupations, but also the connotation of traditional occupations is constantly changing. The sustainable development of everyone's career requires not only lifelong learning, that is, "never too old to learn", but also laying the foundation for lifelong learning in junior high school.
Combining with career development, it is the key task of vocational education to guide students to pay attention to life and the future. By guiding junior high school students to understand that the pace of career evolution is getting faster and faster, let them understand that after graduating from junior high school, they need to study hard for further study and direct employment. They should not only learn knowledge, but also improve their learning ability and form good study habits.
To sum up, the essence of career education is future-oriented education, which enables students to have clear goals, strong interests and good psychological preparation for the future; Let students prepare for their future career and lay a solid foundation on the basis of reality; Let students know what their strengths are, what I can do tomorrow and what I should do today, and pay attention to cultivating students' self-confidence. Offering career courses and implementing career education in junior high schools not only conforms to the law of junior high school students' physical and mental development, but also conforms to the current reality of junior high school education. It is an important measure to implement Scientific Outlook on Development and guide junior high school students' healthy growth.