THE FORMATION OF INDIVIDUAL TRAJECTORY OF VOCATIONAL CHOICES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS

Tatiana Karandaeva¹*, Egubanova Elena², Kozina Irina³, Zabolotsky Olga⁴,
Deniskina Venera5
¹Ass. Professor, Mari State University, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, email takarandaeva@gmail.com
²Teacher, State budgetary educational institution of the Mari El Republic "Savinskiy boarding school", RUSSIAN FEDERATION, email egubanova.elena@mail.ru
³Ass. Professor, Mari State University, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, email kozira@list.ru
⁴Ass. Professor, Mari State University, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, email zabolotskikhop@yandex.ru
⁵Ass. Professor, Academy of qualification improvement and professional retraining of workers of education, Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, email dvenera@yandex.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract

The article outlines the problems of career guidance for high school students with visual impairments and attempts to develop an individual trajectory for the professional choice of students with visual impairments, and also analyzed the specifics of the vocational guidance process and the main difficulties experienced by people with visual impairments in the professional orientation. Visual impairments, personal characteristics and the conditions for teaching and educating adolescents greatly narrow the scope of their professional choice and make it difficult to determine their place in the world of occupations.

The paper reveals the main components of the professional orientation of adolescents with visual impairments: professional diagnostics, which included the study of the characteristics of the state of view and health of adolescents; professional consultations, such as informing students about the needs of the district in the workforce, the conditions for admission to educational institutions, the content of professional activity, the requirements of professions for a person;- professional enlightenment, providing for acquaintance of high school students with various types of work in the society, diversity of professions, specialties, trends in their development, ways of getting a profession, peculiarities of employment, the requirements of this or that profession for health, psycho-physiological and personal qualities of a person. The most important aspects of the activity of vocational guidance of high school students with visual impairments are: familiarization of high school students with artistic creativity; excursions to the enterprises and educational institutions of the city, correctional and developing activities. As the corrective-developing classes with teenagers, the following classes were held: "Temperament and profession", "Labyrinth of professions", "Road to the country of professions". The expected results of the correctional work included:
- the formation of a positive attitude towards work as an essential factor of professional adaptation in the society;
- the formation of the ability to relate their individual psychological characteristics and capabilities to the requirements of the profession;
- the formation of life and academic competencies for optimal professional choice in every teenager;
- adaptation and implementation in practical pedagogical activity of the most effective methods for improving professional self-determination of adolescents with visual impairments;
- development of an individual trajectory of a professional choice of a teenager with visual impairments.
At the end of the article, the results of the work were analyzed and recommendations were offered on the formation of an individual trajectory of the professional choice of high school students with visual impairments.

Keywords: Visual impairments, professional activity, individual, choice, high school, profession.