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Career guidance, interest and inclination

Lessons 28 · 1 lessons · O. A. Qo‘ysinov, O‘. O. Tohirov, D. N. Mamatov, D. F. Aripova. Labour education (Mehnat ta’limi), Grade 9: methodical guide for teachers. Delta-Print, Tashkent, 2017. Note: this is a teacher’s guide, not a student textbook (lesson plans for the “Technology and design”, “Service” and “Basics of agriculture” directions). The course is built from the lesson-plan topics of the “Technology and design” direction; the “Iroqi” skullcap lesson comes from the “Service” direction, and lesson 25 (joining parts) is written from the topic listed in the guide’s calendar plan.
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Career guidance, interest and inclination

Teacher’s guide: pp. 102–106
GoalKnow the meaning of career guidance, its four parts, and the concepts of interest and inclination.
New words
career guidance · kasbga yo‘naltirishinterest · qiziqishinclination · maylcareer counselling · kasbiy maslahat
Explanation

Career guidance is a scientifically based system of work that helps a person find their place, taking into account personal features and the needs of the labour market. It serves to preserve a person’s abilities and health, prevent unemployment and use the labour force sensibly. It has four parts: career information (giving data about occupations, places of study and the labour market), career counselling (studying a person’s features in conversation with a psychologist or specialist), career selection and screening (determining suitability for a specific occupation) and career adaptation (a newly employed person getting used to the team and conditions). Guidance begins in childhood: getting acquainted with occupations in the early grades, testing interests in the middle grades, and in grades 8–9 the period of thoughtfully choosing a specific career. Interest is the striving to know, “I want to know”, while inclination is the striving to do that activity, “I want to do”. Interest at first is temporary and chance; it becomes stable when strengthened by regular study and practice, and then grows into inclination. Reading books about animals may show interest, while caring for them every day may show inclination.

Worked examples
Nodira likes watching videos about robotics (interest). Then she joins a school club and, with the teacher, assembles small models and runs experiments: interest is growing toward inclination.
At the school’s “Careers Day” parents spoke about their work: career information. A separate conversation with a psychologist is career counselling.
Class activity

“Interest or inclination?”: the teacher reads ten sentences (“I read a book about physics”, “Every week I help in the workshop” and so on); students show with a card whether it is interest or inclination. Workshop work is only with the teacher.

Practice
1
Name the four parts of career guidance.
2
Explain the difference between interest and inclination.
3
40 students attended the careers day and 25 of them learned about a new occupation. How many did not learn anything new?
4
Why should an interest be strengthened with practical activity?