Training of VET Teachers on Key Skills to Increase the Employability of VET Students Erasmus Project

Project Title

Training of VET Teachers on Key Skills to Increase the Employability of VET Students

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

As of the first part, the Project targeted to reveal existing Key Skills knowledge and perception of VET teachers which corresponds to Output 1: Development and Implementation of the Assessment Tool for Key Skill Knowledge and Perceptions of VET Teachers In order to investigate the knowledge and perceptions of VET teachers about the key skills needed for the 21st century, a draft questionnaire was developed by Gazi University after a detailed literature review and experts views before the kick-off in Pamplona. Before preparing the items of the questionnaire, five factors according to literature review and expert views; critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and innovation, collaboration and teamwork, social and environmental sustainability were created.
After the items were created according to the factors specified, the draft questionnaire was translated into English and was discussed in the kick-off meeting with the whole partners face to face. According to all partner views in the meeting, the items of the questionnaire were updated and then a time of one week were decided for all the partners to revise and send back their final reviews in order to prepare the final version of the pilot
questionnaire. Taking into account the conditions of the whole partner countries’ teachers (holiday, end of the semester, accessibility of the teachers etc.); 15 teachers from Spain, Portugal and Latvia and 50 teachers from Turkey VET teachers were decided to implement the pilot questionnaire in the meeting. Following the final views from all partners after one week from the kick-off meeting, the final version of the pilot questionnaire was translated into English again and was sent back to all partners to be translated into their languages. After the translation to Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian and Turkish, the pilot implementation was done by all partners.
In order to receive the responses of VET teachers in the same format; a sample excel form was prepared by Gazi University with instructions and was sent to all partners to fill in their data they received from their pilot implementation.
All partners sent back their filled excel forms, which were transferred into SPSS program by Gazi University in order to analyze the questionnaire forms to prepare the final questionnaire. According to the exploratory factor analysis, items the construct validity of which were completed were placed in the final version of the questionnaire. The Cronbach Alpha internal consistency coefficient was calculated as 0,89 which shows that the
reliability of the data is high.
The final version of the questionnaire was completed after the analyses. The questionnaire was applied to VET teachers; 30 from Spain, 29 from Portugal, 41 from Latvia and 147 from Turkey. Similarly, the data were filled into the excel forms and sent back to Gazi University. The analysis and the results presented, the draft training program for VET teachers that was presented to all partners in the second meeting in Riga, Latvia. After the Riga meeting Gazi University sent the draft of the Training program to partners. All partners provided feedback on the draft program till November 13-17, 2017: Then skype session was organized at the end of the November to discuss the content of the programme.
The website www.skills4vet.eu established to have different login options for different users according to their role in the project activities. The project website content translated into partner languages. All partners provide the translations and sent to the coordinator ABIDINPASA.
Before the the Portugal meeting all training programs ere sent to all partners . In this meeting, a very detailed discussion on the whole program has been made with special emphasis on deciding the “objectives”. The objectives of the training programs have been compromised by all the partners at the end of the meeting.
According to all partners’ feedback on the training programs and deciding on the basis of modules that are “objectives” all partners decided to work on the modules altogether. The modules were developed by modifying and adding extra parts (activities) to the training programs. All partners sent their preparations and after one week’s examination on each other’s preparations a Skype meeting was organized in the second week of February (February 12).
At the end of February all modules had been completed. After all the training programs and modules had been decided, training programs started to be implemented in Abidinpaşa and then in all partner institutions and last for 5 days and 6 hours in each day. Multiplier events as workshops head been organised in all partners’ countries. Respectively Participants had been taken in workshops in Turkey to 95 participants, 93 participants in Spain, in Portugal 102 participants and 79 participants in Latvia. All the outputs were presented to the related stakeholders at those workshops.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 214631,14 Eur

Project Coordinator

Abidinpasa Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Sicó Formação, Sociedade de Ensino Profissional S.A. – Escola Tecnológica e Profissional de Sicó
• APEC Egitim Danismanlik Ltd.
• VALSTS IZGLITIBAS SATURA CENTRS
• ASOCIACION DE LA INDUSTRIA NAVARRA
• GAZI UNIVERSITESI