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New skills for VET teachers

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-1-FI01-KA202-060727
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 66,110 EUR

New skills for VET teachers

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The skills set and role of VET teachers is being outpaced by development of working life. Jobs and occupations are changing so much that the VET institutes do not even know how the change affect us and how we should react. In general, VET organizations can be heavy and clumsy in being adaptable. In order to succeed in future, VET institutes need to change and be more flexible like the companies. The pace of innovation and changing skills requirements across all sectors of work life is fast, and the expectations of learners change rapidly. However, many education institution staff still hold traditional attitudes to the role of teachers. At the same time the clientele of VET is becoming more diverse: comprehensive school leavers (post 16 years of age) form only a part of the students of VET institutes, where as the main groups are adults with no previous secondary education, people wanting to change profession, professionals aiming to strengthen and deepen their professional competence, unemployed people and immigrants or asylum seekers. The profession of vocational teacher is constantly in transformation and solutions need to be found.We have five partners from three different countries (FI, UK, NL) that are secondary or tertiary level VET institutes and a school of professional teacher education. The participants of the project activities can be managers, HR staff and teachers. All partners have participated in multiple EU projects over the last few years. All the organisations are concerned about the need for VET providers to find ways to ensure that the skills of teachers meet the needs of the working life now and in the future. VET providers need to find ways to improve teacher professional learning. We all are facing the same kind of challenges and phenomena across Europe. Therefore, in this project, we want to share views, challenges and good practices on how to provide new skills for our teachers also on a European level. We are going to have three workshops during the project. Each workshop addresses a certain issue connected with future skills of teaching. Planned topics for the workshops include life long learning; interaction between companies and education institutes; dealing with changes in work life and how to respond in a flexible way; and adapting to student diversity. The information from the workshops is then collected in the form of articles, digital tools and knowledge bases, and put into an on-line tool kit. The result of the project will be that the participants gain new ideas to ensure and improve teacher professional learning. VET providers will have found ways to ensure that the skills of teachers meet the needs of the working life now and in the future. VET providers have found ways to improve teacher professional learning. We will have shared knowledge of the education challenges and phenomena across Europe. It is anticipated that the workshops will support throughout the project the partner institutions to carry out testing and implementation in order to develop their own methodology in staff training. By the end of the project, management and HR departments will have created a clear vision on how to best train their staff and implement these changes in the areas of life long learning; interaction between companies and education institutes; dealing with changes work life and how to respond in a flexible way; and adapting to student diversity.

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