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Description
"Stefan Anghel" Technological High School Bailesti proposes this first EEA project entitled "SMART TEAM VET" for 13 participants, in partnership with the economic agent SC DRAGOS VOYAGE TRANS SRL, who will travel on a 6-day Study Visit in Paphos, Cyprus where they will have learning experience related to practical internships with tutoring according to the Cypriot model. The Cypriot partners in this project are: Rivensco Consulting (Paphos branch), with a role in the logistical organization of the Study Visit (accommodation services, meals, local transport, organization of cultural activities), and the Technical School of Paphos is the institution that will organize and carries out the activities of the Study Visit, with experience in practical internships with tutoring.
The field targeted for this project is mechanical.
The objectives:
1-Increase by min. 85% of the level of pedagogical competences and of planning / organizing the practical internships with tutoring for VET students
2-Increase by min. 80% of the quality of internships with tutoring in partnership with local businesses
In this project the levels are targeted: 3-vocational school, 4-technological high school, 5-post-secondary school all in the mechanical field.
The 13 participants are: 1 director, 8 VET teachers, 1 English teacher - a total of 10 people from our high school and 3 representatives of the economic agency SC DRAGOS VOYAGE SRL
The 13 participants will make as products:
1 Guide for organizing internships with tutoring,
1 CDL in the field of mechanics, 1 internship partnership with a new company,
1 Glossary of terms specific to the field of mechanics in English,
1 Methodology of cooperation and monitoring of practical internships with tutoring.
Summary of project results
The motivation of this project is to offer the opportunity for Vet teachers to assimilate abilities, expeience successful tutoring models, knowing the advantages of a good organisation of interships. In addtion to this the new of this project lays in the opportunity that together with the partner economic agent to send in the Study Visit 13 professionals who will cooperate in the team and will assimilate didactic stategies for a qualitative professional forming of students.- the VET teachers need continuous pedagogical and specific forming according to the actual tendencies of technological and pedagogical progress of opening to the new tendencies in the learning system to modernise the teacing activity using interactive strategies.These characteristics at this moment are deficient according to the presentation of the institution from the School s Action Plan, a percent of 70% of Vet teachers show empirical materialism in the teaching activity, inertion regarding their own formation, didnt cultivate the interest for a good colaboration with partner economic agents. Promoting the scientific relationship according to the needs of the school/students/economic agents is deficient starting from the previous conclusion that empirism and low initiative predominates the educational act.There hasnt been any serious preocupation regarding the elaboration of CDLs by teachers responsible, the basis being a real cooperation with the needs of the economical agent, with qualifications offered by those. In the contents of a CDL is recomended to take pace practical activities or lab in learning situations identified together with the economical agent- insuficient collaboration between Vet teachers in making didactic materials, auxiliaries which support the practical activity of students , to form professional competencies and interpersonal at higher level- the existence in the Vet teachers, of comunication barriers because of the lack of linguistic abilities in foreign languages, weak use of the IT skills which was a brake in front of the initiative to form professionaly and to develop new competencies needed to a society in a continous change.
The main project activities were:
Development of implementation and monitoring plans,
Selection and preparation of study visit participants,
Organization and conduct of the study visit
Making project products and using them in students'' practice
Dissemination of project results.
The project achieved its objectives, was relevant for the intended target groups and for the partner institutions, managing to address the identified needs well. The objectives were achieved and all the proposed results were achieved, at a satisfactory level of quality. The following results were obtained:
• All 10 teachers participating in the study visit declared that they developed skills/competences.
• The 3 representatives of the partner economic agent participating in the study visit declared that they have developed skills regarding the organization of students'' internships.
• A total of 13 people participated in the study visit.
• There are no Roma students in the school.
• They were achieved :
o 1 Guide for organizing practical internships with tutoring
o 1 CDL - Local Development Curriculum improved in the mechanical field
o 1 Practice partnership agreement with a new company
o 1 Practical guide of linguistic terms, specific to the mechanical field in English
o o Methodology of cooperation and monitoring of practical internships with tutoring
• 414 students (90%), out of the total number of 460 students in the VET classes, declared that they obtained better learning results during the internships than in previous years.
The project led to the improvement of the applicant''s collaboration capacity at the European level and at. continuing cooperation with transnational partners. The project activities were carried out as presented in the application.