CASVET

MESLEKİ EĞİTİM ÖĞRETİMİNDE ÇEKİRDEK BECERİLER

Core Abilities of Students at Vocational Education and Trainning

Leonardo da Vinci Vocational Training Partnership Project

What is CAS VET?

It is essential to develop the key skills of pupils as well as their skills related to their prosperous occupation. This has importance at a European level both in education and labour market.
This project is based on the involvement of all the relevant stakeholders, such as educational institutions, vocational institutions, social services, local or governmental authorities, companies. All these bodies should contribute into the discussion regarding problem areas and help to find the “European” model of either education in vocational education, needs of the students at vocational education or the basic required skills for the youngsters. The partners were selected according their knowledge of key skills and this provides an excellent basis to start spreading knowledge at local, regional, national and international levels. We expect enhanced professional skills for staff and a hands-on approach for them in matters concerning vocational institutions and ambition of their pupils. We expect an enhanced skill guidance in vocational education and better ambition for pupils. We expect an increase of awareness in the participating institutions about the necessity of joint action concerning joint problems including disabled citizens. Staff involved into the project activities will have the opportunity to see the practice in life to discuss interesting topics immediately and learn from the best practice. This live experience enables to see the problems in wide scale and create the picture of European model for CAS VET. As all the partners are coming from various corners of Europe they will also bring their own experiences, the real European model of the outputs is ensured by that. Creation and using the European model (of either education or staff) helps international mobility of working force to think and perform quality and use quality approach.

Methodolgy of CAS VET

In each institution a steering group of staff will manage the project and encourage the widest possible involvement by the rest of the education community, employers, labour market and enterprises. In both small and larger institutions regular staff meetings will feature an agenda item on the Leonardo Project and members of the core group will report on activities.
In larger institutions there will be activities which will feature on the institution intranet.
Institutions with their own web site will use this to inform educational institutions, pupils and parents about the activities planned and progress made.
Employers and other stakeholders will be invited to participate in conferences and other activities where possible and practical.
The staff will actively be involved in planning, implementation, development and evaluation of project activities, both at local and transnational levels. In particular:

PLANNING– The staff of participating organizations, through mutual cooperation occasions will jointly develop a common approach on core skills and development of new models to be implemented in VET. The transnational meetings will represent the main planning moments, fostering shares of good practices implemented at local levels and a EU debate on best ways to reach the target. Moreover, the staff will implement local based researches aimed at focusing on most crucial elements – relevant to own belonging context’s specificities.

IMPLEMENTATION– In order to collect relevant information to be considered, staff will design the appropriate instruments for researches and conduct national/local/regional surveys accompanied with data collection sheets and analysis of results. All partners will collaborate for comparative studies and present reports al national/local/regional level but also at transnational meeting.

DEVELOPMENT - All organizations involved will collaborate according to initial planning in finding the most appropriate ways of developing theme aiming to attract in this process other entities in the community interested in the area (business community, universities, vocational education institutions/ organizations, rehabilitation centers, labour market, etc.

EVALUATION– Besides participating in the partnership evaluation process (see the specific section in the application form), trainers will provide feedback of target groups they work with and will adjust methods used according to this feedback. In this joint, transnational cooperation process, all the parts involved will play a crucial role in the development of an effective approach fostering core skills and structure and importance in VET.