Yenza

Go back

CertifiedEducation quality

11/2023

Career counceling

Yenza Smart Career Technology combines advanced psychometry, data-science and intelligent design to guide you to career success.

Registration

Not required

Offline play

Playable offline

Pictures

Pedagogy

Educational Quality

Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive

Active

Learning with Yenza is based on free exploration and individual needs. The solution requires the user to choose what and how to learn; Are the students interested in job or education opportunities, courses etc. Data-based inspirational suggestions are provided to the learner based on the assessments they take. The recommendations and analysis results promote positivity and self-assurance.

Rehearse

Construct

Yenza's goal is to guide a learner to make an informed decision. They can get data on how suited an individual is for a specific job based on their Worker Type report and other assessment findings. Different assessments give different kind of tools for reflecting one's personal growth. The learning styles report gives overview of learning styles, and then zooms in on each specific criterion and expands on it.

Linear

Non-linear/Creative

Personalized learning is an effective approach that encourages individuals to engage with the product and remain motivated. The outcomes of the use depend a lot on the person who is using it, and their interests. The teacher training material fosters this approach. There are some good tools that are relevant for everyone and help the student to learn practical skills, such as CV builder.

Individual

Collaborative

Yenza's strength is to offer a platform for tailored and individualized career guidance, where the learner can act and progress autonomously. The learner self-regulates all learning activities and is able to set personal learning goals.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

Yenza is well designed for personal and individual growth, giving plenty of resources for career and education options.

Yenza helps the student to develop a sense of ownership in their decision-making towards the future.

The assessment tools help comparing your personality and needs to available options.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

I can review my skills in relation to what employers are looking for

I am able to set myself career goals

I make use of technologies to develop my career

I make effective decisions relating to my life, learning and work.

I’m able to reflect on my strengths and address my weaknesses.

I know who I am and what I am good at.

I build professional relationships and networks to support my (future) career

I can find and use information and the support of others for my (future) career

I manage my goals, my time and personal finances in a way that supports my career building.

I can make decisions and set career goals for myself within appropriate timescales.

I assess the pros and cons of formal and informal sources of information.

I can find work or learning opportunities that are right for me.

I make the most of opportunities I come across.

I understand how learning and work change over time.

I understand how changes in society relate to my learning and work.

I generate ideas that help me to achieve my goals

I can cope with challenges and changes which take place in life.

I can cope with changes in the world of work.

I can develop skills which will help me to get what I want out of work.

I seek new opportunities to help build my career.

I learn throughout life.

Soft skills learning goals

Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology

Practicing to set one's own learning goals

Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning

Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself

Learning to notice causal connections

Practising visual recognition

Practicing categorization and classification

Practicing memorizing skills

Using technology as a part of explorative process

Using technology for interaction and collaboration

Using technological resources for finding and applying information

Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process

Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations

Practicing to find, evaluate and share information

Practicing to use information independently and interactively

Realizing the connection between subjects learned in free time and their impact to skills needed at worklife

Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life

Practicing decision making

Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback

Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings

Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability

Learning to listen other people’s opinions

Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings

Encouraging to build new information and visions

Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity

Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us

Practicing to notice links between subjects learned

Learning to build information on top of previously learned

Using technology to express one’s emotions and experiences

Practicing to look things from different perspectives

Practicing to notice causal connections

Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings

Developing problem solving skills

Practicing to take care of own and other people’s safety

Practicing to take care of one's own and other people’s safety

Practicing to take care of one's own wellbeing and health

Encouraging the growth of positive self-image

Practicing to recognize and express feelings

Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative

Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas

Practicing to improvise

Creating requirements for creative thinking

Practicing to evaluate one's own learning

Practicing persistent working

Practicing strategic thinking

Using technology resources for problem solving

Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life

Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts

Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms

Understanding and interpreting of matrices and diagrams

Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts, from vernacular to academic

Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms

Practicing versatile ways of working

Learning to plan and organize work processes

Learning consumer knowledge and smart economics

Practicing time management

Encouraging positive attitude towards working life

Enabling the growth of positive self-image

Learning to understand the meaning of rules, contracts and trust

Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners

Learning to combine information to find new innovations

Yenza

Yenza

Subject based learning goals

Soft skills learning goals

User reviews for Yenza

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Yenza

Subject based learning goals

Soft skills learning goals

User reviews for Yenza

You need to log in to post a review.

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate