Workplace needs and pedagogical response Case apprenticeship system

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1 Workplace needs and pedagogical response Case apprenticeship system Mr Teppo Tapani, Principal of Tampere Adult Education Centre TAKK Ms Helena Koskinen, Director of VET, Tampere Vocational College TREDU Guangzhou, China 27 November 2014

2 Tampere Region (Pirkanmaa) Tampere Region has over inhabitants, 2nd largest county in Finland, 9% Finnish population

3 Developing training in cooperation with the world of work Work-based learning in VET is the core of the training activities The advisory board of the educational institution is the most important form of cooperation in implementing regional educational plans improving the quality of training making training cooperation plans generating ideas for projects developing the world of work teacher representatives, employer and employee representatives in advisory boards Educational institutions together develop education in many different projects E-learning and simulation as examples Together VET and workplace: foresee training needs and offering, develop educational activities, share good practices and organise events and seminars

4 Taken from a company or in a VET school?

5 Learning by doing The methodology in VET: contact teaching, on-the-job learning, guided distant education, E-studies and independent studies On-the-job learning refers to learning the knowledge and skills needed in the working life in authentic workplace contexts with workplace instructor On-the-job learning is always goal-oriented, instructed and evaluated activity and it supports the theoretical competence and advances the student in employmency natio0nal or irntrnational periods Various study methods support learning at work: Acquiring knowledge and skills, analysing information, having conversations and making practical applications Development of researching skills, analysing ability and critical touch at work individual study paths, instruction and work-based activities

6 Workplace or learning place?

7 Apprenticeship on the rise There are students in VET in Finland 10% study with apprenticeship training Popularity of apprenticeship training grows In average, 80% of the learning takes place at the workplace Competence develops in conditions and in the work tasks that are characteristic and particular to the real workplace Vocational qualification certificate of apprenticeship training gives the (same) right to apply to further higher education Apprenticeship training is a good channel to employment

8 Who is learning from whom?

9 The Finnish Education System

10 Three Levels of National Qualifications Case: Business and Commerce Vocational Qualification in Business and Administration Further Qualification in Sales Specialist Qualification for Shop Managers Case: Social and Health Care Vocational Qualification in Social and Health Care Further Qualification for Special Needs Assistants Specialist Qualification for Care for the Elderly

11 Professional? or a student?

12 Student Stories: Car Painting Joonas Lampinen, KolarimaalausCenter Oy Quick Start for Car Painting Entrepreneur Acqusition of a running car paint company Entrepreneurship training in TAKK: Marketing, branding, running a business Important for Mr Lampinen: Customer needs, high quality, youthfulness, web services for car owners New in business: e-commerce, car renting services

13 Are these people at work or in the school?

14 Student Stories: From Waitress to Machinist Kaisu Harvala High school, HoReCA qualification and waitressing for a few years; what happened then? shift in vocational interest plus input from project VIRINA, getting acquainted with iron Machinery or welding? Machinery won for Kaisu One year spent studying for the qualification, fast speed Well done work practice in Bend Finland Oy (drilling machinery) to work right after finishing the studies

15 Who are these professionals?

16 Who are these professionals?

17 Contact information Tampere Adult Education Centre TAKK Mr Teppo Tapani Tampere Vocational College TREDU Ms Helena Koskinen