Team Teaching in Welfare Technology Erasmus Project

Project Title

Team Teaching in Welfare Technology

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

Context:
-Vocational teachers’ role is undergoing a change from knowledge givers to facilitators and co-evaluators. The focus is moving from working alone to co-operation. In the partner coalition countries, The Basque country, Finland and the Netherlands, this change is taking place slowly and therefore it is important that implementation of this new, different way of working and learning is encouraged and expedited.
-Welfare technology is one the key development areas in Tredu and its partner schools, because work in social and health care and is changing due to digitalization and increased utilization of technology in care. It is one of the areas where cooperation across different fields is necessary. New technologies in healthcare can only succeed, if they are developed together, across the borders, cross-curricularly. Application- and technical developers must know the wishes and needs both of the clients and users of the technologies and the professionals in the field, ie. the carers, to create applications and solutions that work well and serve the intended purpose.
The project idea is to involve teachers and students from different fields of education (social and health care, it, electrical/mechanical engineering) in solving real problems relating to welfare technology, together, in work places in the field of social and health care, in co-operation with the work places. The focus in working life will be in elderly care, not excluding other work or care environments. The problems are either related to existing welfare technologies or they can be solved with welfare technology not yet used in the work place. Methodology of design thinking offers tools for problem solving. From pedagogical point of view the teachers involved in the project will gain and use skills in team teaching, problem and phenomenon –based teaching, flipped learning and -teaching.
-Co-operation and communication between VET providers and working life is crucial in realising VET in any country as the guidelines for the qualitive and quantitive output from VET can be directly traced back to the situation in the labour market.
Objectives:
Project TEAM WE aims at:
1) introducing and instilling new ways of teaching and learning to vocational education (cross sectoral co-operation, team teaching, design thinking, problem- and phenomenon-based learning and flipped learning).
2) further increasing and strengthening co-operation with working life. The tools and methods involved support the reform of VET in Finland and help teachers in adopting the concept of new teachership.
3) increasing teachers’, students and care workers’ knowledge and skills in welfare technology and to generate positive attitude towards it.
4) strengthening the participants key competences (problem solving skills, skills in communication and cooperation, initiative taking and entrepreneurship, technology and digital communication, skills in active citizenship and different languages and cultures).
5) strengthening the cooperation between partner organizations.
Number and profile of participants and description of activities and methodology:
The project comprises 70 LTT mobilities (24 student- + 46 staff mobilities) and 16 project meeting mobilities (staff). In teachers short term staff training events teachers learn and practice new teaching methods consistent with the ideology of new teachership. During the parallel blended mobility of learners – activities the students solve the given problems in work places using these methods or elements from them as a tool. Teachers steer and guide the problem solving process.
All LTT activities include cooperation with working life; students and teachers visit the work places twice during a project week and working life partners are invited to attend the seminar day/multiplier event at the end of each LTT week. These workshops are possible thanks to intense prior cooperation between the VET organisations and the workplaces. All teacher and student work takes place in multicultural and multiprofessional teams, all participants learning professional skills from each other and strengthening their key competencies.
Results, impact envisaged and potential longer term benefits
The concrete result is a handbook for teachers how to realize cross-sectoral problem-based learning with the methods of new teachership. The handbook will be source of information for teachers seeking information about new teaching methods, cross-curricular teaching or/and welfare technology teaching.
Carrying out this project contributes towards increased interest in international work in general in and strenghtened partnerships between the attending organisations, more intense cooperation between VET provider and working life and it steers and encourages teachers to test and adapt new teaching methods and to cross boundaries open-mindedly.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147682 Eur

Project Coordinator

TAMPEREEN KAUPUNKI & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Deltion College
• CIFP MEKA LHII
• TKNIKA
• TAMPEREEN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY