PROFF – Professionalisation of VET teachers for the future - Europa

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Pedagogical and vocational skills; pedagogical and vocational updateTeachers and trainers in VET require two distinct sets of skills. They need pedagogical skills:ability to analyse and identify student needs, ability to design training programmes to meetthese needs, ability to teach and ability to assess the educational and professional outcome ofthis teaching. These are generic skills needed by all teachers regardless of the discipline inwhich they work.VET teachers also need vocational skills and knowledge. They need to understand andperform the tasks trainees will be asked to perform when they leave school and begin work –and also have a firm grounding in the theory underlying these skills.In the past, VET teachers acquired their pedagogical and vocational skills at the beginning oftheir careers. Today this is no longer possible. National VET systems are in continuouschange. Educational theory suggests innovative teaching methods, some involving the use oftechnology. And the workplace is changing faster still, both in terms both of technology andworking practices.In this new situation, it is essential that teachers should continuously update their pedagogicaland vocational skills. In what follows we will refer to these processes as pedagogical updateand vocational update.10
1. IntroductionThe annual conference of the Cedefop TTnet network held in Thessaloniki in 2001, set upthree projects on themes identified as transversal priorities for TTnet national networks whichalso reflected Community policy on training teachers and trainers in VET. The three projectsare:• Project 1: E-Learning: innovative practices and the activities and competences of teachersand trainers;• Project 2: Professionalisation of VET teachers;• Project 3: Validation of non-formal learning for trainers.This report describes Project 2: Professionalisation of VET teachers for the future (PROFF).The main focus of PROFF is on innovative in-service training for VET teachers. The projectwas jointly coordinated by TTnet Denmark and TTnet Finland. The Dutch, French, Italian,Norwegian and Portuguese TTnets were partners.PROFF is based on previous work within TTnet and builds on findings and results presentedat a TTnet workshop on the ‘professionalisation of VET teachers’, held in Helsinki in 2001.The main themes of this workshop were:• ‘professionalisation of teachers’;• meeting future challenges in this field;• developing ‘professionalisation’ during teacher careers.On the second theme the workshop identified several challenges. These included:• the need to provide vocational education to new target groups;• changing paradigms in educational theory and the trend towards student centredapproaches;• the increasing role of IT, as an educational and management tool;• new developments in labour markets;• changes in national VET legislation;• organisational changes at school level;• the impact of internationalisation.11
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