Discovery class is a program that the Director of Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE) developed to provide opportunities for all the students in Preparatory Class (who are studying general knowledge before they go and chose the skill they will study next year). This program was designed to help them chose the skill that they think it is the best one for them to study and where they can find work to do easily.
In this year and also in this month, from 01 January until the end of March 2012, all the students in Preparatory Class (CP) of Pour un Sourire d’Enfant went to discovery class in Siem Reap. In this discovery class, each class could go only one time and had one week for traveling and visiting.
PSE conduct this discovery class because:
PSE want all the students to know about the route to Siem Reap city and also to know about the procedure of working environment such as hotel, company, organization, national museum, tourism company, to know what they do.
One more thing, PSE want all the students to know "what they want to get from the staff, and how many skill or position they need", in order to provide the good choice for students to choose the skill in the right way.
And let them try to prepare themselves to study such as abilities, knowledge, working attitude, appearance, personality, moral, computer and languages skills.
To be clear, I heard from one student in P2C that, when her class visited the company and hotel, she thought: “I’m very happy that I had this opportunity to visit there and I was able to know about the process of working in a hotel and company, such as: how many skills they need, in one hotel or one company, how many departments they have?”.
So, she will try her best to complete what she doesn’t have and try to develop herself to be better than before to get the skills to work, especially work in hotel. Not only her think like this, but also all her classmates that visited there, they can open their mind (which skill they could work in and how many subjects they must learn to get the skill that they like), and they try to prepare themselves to be professionals, like in the real working environment.
So, discovery class is a way to let the entire students find the good choice for themselves for a good future. And, to complete enough abilities to work in a company, the vocational training of PSE includes an experience that all the students make to get used to work during their internship.
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