The Project.About the projectThis project involves staffs of a big vocational training centre and 5 secondary vocational schools from 6 small-to-medium sized towns in Europe.
The project is based on good practices of different European institutions, which will be resulted in a collection of new, innovative practices and methods. We will work on different topics, the institutions will present and explain their good practices, the methods they are good at. The key factors of this project are promoting 21st century skills in vocational education such as problem solving, team working, leadership, digital literacy, communication and and practising them in exciting and effective ways. If we take the needs of future job market into consideration we have to renew and refresh the list of offered jobs. AimsMost organisations are facing the same challenge of demand for high-level qualifications in EU, so we try to renew the vocational education according to the needs of the domestic and international job market. This should answer the demand of high-qualified teachers and professionals at schools and other institutions to provide enough well qualified workers.
Another reason for this project is that getting students' interest and motivating them in today's digitalised world is very difficult with traditional methods, as they cannot imagine their lives without the technology and the Internet. That is why we, the educators, must adapt to the new expectations, and we must renew our traditional, well-established methods with innovative teaching-learning methods. In vocational training sometimes our students are under motivated, they drop out school too early, they do not have any plans for the future. On the other hand, in our changing world the labour market requires more-educated workers. Work ProcessThe project is based on good practices of different European institutions, which will be resulted in a collection of new, innovative practices and methods. We will work on different topics, the institutions will present and explain their good practices, the methods they are good at. The key factors of this project are promoting 21st century skills in vocational education such as problem solving, team working, leadership, digital literacy, communication and and practising them in exciting and effective ways. If we take the needs of future job market into consideration we have to renew and refresh the list of offered jobs.
Teachers working on this project will know a methodology worked out on international level with international teaching methods. They will change good practices with teachers from partner countries, hey can develop their problem-solving skills and know the advantages of team work. They can get own experience how to set theory in practice in professional lessons. Expected Results
At the end of the project we will compile a book with good practices which will be published in paper form and online both in English and in the mother language of the participant countries. The content of this publication will be the good practices and methods collected during the project implementation including the following parts:
Marker Pedagogy, Experience -based learning, Experience in apprenticeship and entrepreneurship, Digital skills and soft skills, Development of projects with companies and higher education institutions, Improving language skills in an international work environment. The results of the project and the good practices would appear in the schools, the teachers would be more prepared for teaching the 21st century generation. Our aim is to reduce the number of early school leavers and to develop learning materials with new teaching methods to help students with weaker skills and competences. |