Pedagogical technologies of career guidance for children and youth of the Republic of Belarus studying in additional education

The article presents the experience of implementing a cyclical educational and vocational guidance project that integrates pedagogical, methodological and socio-cultural resources of additional education for children and youth, institutions of general secondary and vocational education into a complex pedagogical technology of forming a conscious professional choice and motivating professional development. The project presented in this work is the development of the teaching staff of Minsk State Palace of Children and Youth (Republic of Belarus). The peculiarity of the pedagogical approach when developing a project is that it is designed as a modern pedagogical technology of a modular type. The project is addressed to two target groups of participants: the first group is students of institutions of general secondary education, gymnasiums, lyceums, students at the III stage (high school), for whom the situation of professional choice is relevant; the second target group is primary school students of vocational and secondary specialized education institutions. The pedagogical influence on the participants of this target group is aimed at increasing the stability of professional choice, expanding the ideas of student youth about the possibilities of the chosen profession for creative self-realization and the manifestation of business initiative. Ultimately, the expected social effect from the implementation of the project is associated, firstly, with a reasoned motivated choice of an educational and professional strategy and, secondly, with the formation of motivation for professional development and consolidation of promising personnel in the chosen professional field. Cultural, educational and methodological means, which provide the content and activity component of the educational and vocational guidance project, reflect the innovative process of practical solution of strategic and tactical tasks stipulated by the Concept for the development of vocational guidance of youth in the Republic of Belarus. Additional education for children and youth is an integrating factor in the development of career guidance potential of the unified educational system of the capital region of the Republic of Belarus.