DESIGN OF ICTS COMPETENCES MAP INVOLVED IN THE WORK OF GUIDANCE PROFESSIONALS

Abstract

In this article, the essential intention is the analysis of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) competences necessary in the guidance practitioners action. Also, appears the design of a competences map in which the ICT skills are articulated adequately by the guidance what represents a principal tool in the organization and development of the guidance function in the educational, social, labour contexts, etc. The ICT and guidance competences expressed in the map are of a great efficiency and help in the improvement of the quality and innovation of the guidance services and institutions. In the generation of the competences map adequately vertebrate, it is considered the guidance competences in a wide international consensus elaborated by the AIOEP (International Association of Educational and Professional Guidance) in the Guidance scene and in the ICT area the FEDORA’S classification and that elaborated in the Europe Project ICT Skills for Guidance Counsellors (Cogoi et al., 2005). Also, there is included as third dimension the way of using the ICT in the guidance function (way, resource or development) and as fourth the classification of the aims categories and the learning results in the knowledge, attitudes and skills area. The exposed dimensions must articulate adequately in a matrix box of specifications that uses as guide and it helps the guidance agents in their professional function. The competences map must be an opened and flexible resource that allows to develop in waterfall in its content, to extend and to deepen, where appropriate into new guidance competences and ICT competences that progressively could arise in the future.