Career Planning Education in Universities Based on Experiential Teaching Mode

Abstract

Experiential teaching model is an effective way to promote career planning teaching efficiency.This paper analyzes the necessity of experiential teaching in career planning education,discusses the teaching process in detail and then put forward the problems needed to be focus on in the teaching process.The purpose of this paper is to provide scientific reference for career planning education in colleges and universities and to promote college students' career planning consciousness and to improve the quality of talent training in colleges and universities. In order to help undergraduate students’ self-cognition,looking for their orientation,and giveing full play to their potential, various universities according to “ college students' career development and employment guidance course teaching requirements ” promulgated by the Ministry of Education in 2007 [1] , have offered career planning related courses,but the teaching effect is not as perfect as expected.In this paper,the experiential teaching model is applied in career planning teaching and ‘experience’ is as a teaching strategy and center.Through interactive experience activities,we want to arouse the inner sense of career planning of college students, improve capacity of career planning, besides,provide a reference for career planning course teaching reform. Connotation of Experiential Career Planning Teaching Experiential teaching derived from experiential learning proposed in the 1940s. David Kolb raised experiential learning styles model in 1984.which makes “positive experiment (doing) --investment experience (feeling) --reflection observation (observation) --summary (thinking) as a systematic integrated learning process. [2] Experiential career planning teaching means, in the process of career planning education in order to achieve objectives, starting from the teaching need, introducing or creating career related Joint International Social Science, Education, Language, Management and Business Conference (JISEM 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 29 specific situations first,teachers choose the appropriate guide and problems,and lead students to participate in the activities to stimulate students' emotional experience.At the end of activities,students think deeply and share their feelings and experiences ,then teachers give some comments to help students correctly understanding the teaching content ,forming career planning consciousness, promoting employment career planning ability,planing their career development. Career Planning Curriculum Design Based on Experiential Teaching Mode Experiential career planning course begins with experience, through rethinking and sharing of students, and then with the help of teacher's summary, sublimation, and ultimately internalizes into the students' career planning awareness, to help students get the ability of solving the problem of career planning. Design and guide of Career Experience Activities Experiential teaching mode relies on activities,games,situations and cases well-designed according to teaching contents and teaching aims to guide students to actively participate in.Under the guiding,students may comprehend their personality, interests, ability and career decision-making process profoundly.In order to stimulate students' enthusiasm and interest, and to ensure the effectiveness of the teaching, teachers should guide students to understand the meaning of the activities, master the rules and methods of activities, and clear the activity process.Systematic activity process and scientific guide words are important premise to ensure the effect of experiential teaching.The teaching mode requires higher teachers' personal ability and professional quality. Participate in Career Experience Activities In experiential teaching mode,students as the main body, should participate in all kinds of career experiential activities personally or as a group under teachers’ guidance according to requirements of the activities.They also have to observe others’ statements and actions in the activities, stimulate personal experience ,find problems and explore methods to solve the problem actively, so as to improve the ability of self-observation, self-reflection, self-analysis . Thinking and Sharing of Career Experience Activities Career experience activity is a process of problem consciousness training. Teachers,participating in experience activities as a conductor and spectator,observe student's