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Motivation in Vocational Education

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-TR01-KA229-059818
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 45,811 EUR

Motivation in Vocational Education

Description

This project aims to prevent early school leaving combating failure in education, to develop strategies for the issues of career guidence and youth unemployment, and to develop innovative education methods for improving student motivation in VET. The reasons which motivate us doing this project is as below: 1. Vocational school students are seemed that they cannot reach expected academic or work-based educational achievement. 2. New beginners of the vocational education are seemed to be indecisive and unwilling about their career choices, which might be a reason for their failure and early school leaving. 3. The students who don't have a future goal or career plan are seemed to be unsuccessful not only at vocational school but also in business life. 4. Vocational school students are seemed not to meet the needs of enterprises and business world when they graduate. The activities of this project have focused on identifying the reasons for inadequate or lack of motivation in VET and developing practical, sustainable approaches for increasing student motivation to deal with the disadvantageous mentioned above. Antalya Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School (Turkey) has coordinated the management and implementation of the project within the participation of IIS Francesco Orioli(Italy), Karlstads kommun Nobelgymnasiet(Sweden) and IES Punta Del Verde(Spain). The partner schools have non-profit public body experiencing similar problems and disadvantageous, carrying out studies to increase student motivation in their schools and are eager to share their good applications regarding motivation while learning from others. We exchanged good practices on alumni cooperation for motivation, internationalization for motivation, integration for motivation and emotional intelligence for motivation while working on developing systematic, innovative educational methods for assessment and improvement of student motivation as a key competence in vocational education and our schools’ VET quality. In order to reach the project objectives, we carried out monthly activities. We created a questionnaire to measure the motivation level of vocational school students and to identify the reasons of of low motivation in 4 languages. Each partner school conducted this questionnaire online. Totally 574 VET students involved in the survey. The project teams assessed the questionnaires and shared the obtained data firstly with the school community , then with the partner schools. The comparative results were uploaded the project website, vetforall.org.tr. Each partner school carried out motivation-enhancing activities according to the results of the survey. The motivation-enhancing activities involved technical visits to private companies, university visits, organizing or attending to introductory events for VET fields, organizing seminars which improves students’ professional or self-development, inviting former students to share study and work experience. Besides, we realized 4 learning/training activities in each partner country to evaluate the implementation of the project and exchanging good practices to transfer our schools’ education system. Totally 9 participants involved in each LTT activity. The participants involved in the activities at management, mentoring and teaching level. As a result of this project, we created a questionnaire which measures motivation level of VET students. This online questionnaire is not only practical to apply and assess, but also sustainable.The activities carried out according to the results of the questionnaire are also improvable and sustainable depending on the needs of the students and schools. It has been observed that these activities have improved student motivation by providing early job orientation for their vocational fields and future career. During the application of the project, the number of school activities which support students’ self-improvement and knowledge of VET fields were obviously increased. As a result of this, students’ interest to our schools has been increased. We exchanged the good practices supporting student motivation in partner schools, transferred the good applications, created innovative, systematic and sustainable approaches in order to strengthen key competences and VET quality in our schools. This project has strengthened the cooperation and internalization of VET schools, work-based settings and labor market.It has developed and supported teachers’, trainers’ and mentors’ competence and ability regarding motivation and entrepreneurship. The protocols that were signed during the project term have provided our students to get a job and decrease youth unemployment in a long term. A project activity booklet was published in Turkish and English. The booklet and all the documents including project activities were uploaded vetforall.org.tr, web sites and social media accounts of partner institutions.

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