International Partnership for Improving the Quality of Teaching in Vocational Schools
within strategic partnerships developed in the sector “KA2 Education and Vocational Training”
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During last International Partners Meeting on 16th September 2016 framework plan of the meeting included presentation of three courses prepared by the PP Bialystok, where there was invited authors of the courses to present its possibilities and technical side. Then the work continued with the use of tool (platform) and prepared courses in 3 areas. We discussed issues related to the implementation of courses, a discussion on the effects of the implementation of courses, seminars with foreign partners and dates for the next meetings of the...
read moreDear Partners, Recently we tried to reach some interesting materials about possibilities, solutions and new ideas for using Moodle. In may 2016 there was a big conference in Poland (Moodle Moot) and we reached some of the materials from that conference to use the ideas in our courses. Now it is too late, but maybe in the “implementation” phase in 2017 we all can participate in such an event for exchange of experiences between teachers using the Moodle platform and administrators. It can give us also some ideas and inspiration as...
read moreDear Partners, Our trainers and experts are preparing the materials and tasks for students which will use the platform and pass through all three courses created by the project team. Our main tasks during this month is to translate all Polish language materials, descriptions and actions inside courses into English. We try to constantly upload them on the test platform to see whether they work as they intend to or they need some bug-fixing. Hope that after we finish our Intellectual Output, there will be a lot of fun testing and passing it...
read moreDear Partners, as at the end of this week there is a scheduled International Project Meeting in our Partner facilities at DTS in Daugavpils, please find an agenda for the meeting below. If you got any remarks or suggestions to it please let us know. IPM Daugavpils 17.06.2016
read moreDear Partners, we sincerely thank you for your help during consultations conducted among entrepreneurs. We hope that we manage to explore the “need for skills” of representative group of employees. Thanks to these meetings and surveys conducted earlier our knowledge of the needs and characteristics of the school environment is much better. During our next IPM on 20/05/2016 in Bialystok we plan to present a report of our diagnoses. We invite all partners and hope that it will be a fruitful meeting. Maybe you have some additional...
read moreDear all, We recently started the next Intelectual Output (4). During the consultation with companies from Latvia and Lithuania we were discussing the following issues: Gaps competence and skills of students – as further employees, Customer service, Language skills, ICT, Business Ethics, Business Marketing. The main issues discussed during the consultation: The biggest competence gaps in the skills of potential employees, The skills most required among employees, Issues of specialization pupils and professional practice, What current...
read moreThe Lithuanian team is completing work on phase 3 of the project – to collect and develop educational materials in the form of an interactive manual. All subjects were placed on a platform. Developed and placed the final test. Maybe there are any comments or requests? In the course of testing we will be able together to discuss them and improve. Good luck in the testing manual and in the next stage of work to Perfect Project. Best regards, Lithuanian team
read moreDear project participants, we wish all of us Happy Easter, productive project development and implementation, and positive emotions as well! Kind greetings, Latvian team.
read more19th of February in Vilnius was held a meeting of partners. There was a presentation of the materials and the next – the last topics developed by our team. We discussed the preparatory activities for training. Has been presented model of questionnaires, which proposes to be given for Lithuanian, Latvian and Polish employers (the study of the needs and problems). The materials in an interactive manual designed to improve the quality of teaching in vocational schools. How do you think, this manual can affect the improvement of quality of...
read morePlanned topics have already been developed and topics in the Lithuanian language are already inserted. However, in the English language has been arranged 9 themes, and already in February we plan to put in full English version. We recommend to test in your working groups already placed materials, to make sure it works as it need to be and whether it should introduce some corrections. It would be good for the planned working meeting to receive some suggestions in terms of efficiency placed materials. We look forward to suggestions and...
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