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Description
The project comes in response to the pupils and teachers from Transilvania Forestry School Năsăud and the forest administration from Șieului Valley to organize quality internships given as an example of good practice from Upper Secondary school Stend from Norway. A study visit of 5 days will be focus on information about work based learning and visits to companies involved in internships. This portfolio will include: initial evaluation sheets, progress and final for trainees, training agreements between school operator and trainee, memoranda of understanding and letters of intent.
The project objectives are: developing organizational powers to organize quality training; development of evaluation techniques for practical activities for the integration of students in the labor market; professional development components for students in forestry qualification; forestry development practice through internships abroad; capacity development of cooperation with institutions from Norway
7 teachers/tutors will participate to the study visit. The project management team will be made up of project officer, financial management officer and the person responsible for the dissemination and valorization of the results. Participants in the study visit will be professors from the Department of technology, tutors and mentors to practice Forestry Șieului Valley. The project activities are: discussions with representatives of the host school, how to organize practical activities; roundtable with school officers to organize practical activities; study visit at the base of the school, workshops, laboratories, discussions with students and teachers; visit the school operators’ partners; the students evaluation after the internships.
Expected results: acquiring organizational powers; establishing training agreements between the school and partner company; ability to organize quality internships; the teaching portfolio; 2 Local decision curricula.
Summary of project results
Learning outcomes: 7 VET teaches and tutors with better competencies for organizing and implementing work based learning activities for students.
Products: a. Guide for internship tutors - includes information for conducting, evaluating and recognizing internships. It is useful for technical and vocational education institutions as a guide for carrying out the practice at the company. b Student training agreements made between the school, the student and the economic agent that contain the knowledge, skills and abilities that must be acquired after the internships at the economic agent. They also include the daily schedule, monitoring of students, mentors and practice tutors as well as ways to evaluate them. c. 2 Local Decision Curricula. These are "Improving Degraded Land" a module that develops skills needed to develop degraded land belonging to the forestry and agricultural sector, which has arisen due to irrational and growing exploitation and is financially supported by the European Commission through projects. “The indicator flora from the forests of Bistrița-Năsăud county is a module that helps students to acquire skills related to the types of forest in the county and to establish correlations between their productive potential depending on the main elements of forest resorts. d. 1 Memorandum of understanding.
Summary of bilateral results
The importance of collaboration with the Norwegian school results not only from the condition imposed in the approval of the 2018-EY-PCVET-R1-0003 project, but also from a need for professional improvement, an epistemic, didactic and managerial curiosity. The involvement of the Norwegian school offered to Romanian teachers/tutors to understand the Norwegian educational policy and organizational culture, the priority of vocational education and training, the differences between the Romanian and Norwegian VET systems (the flexibility of the Norwegian education system; the appropriate endowment of the technical schools according to the requirements of the economic agents and special European quality standards in terms of didactic training and professional training (FESTO teaching stands, TOYOTA car stand, Electrolysis installations, etc.)). The curricula are much better structured in the sense of their simplicity and presentation of topics from simple to complex, working with 15 students in the class. The practical work skills that are formed in the school are continued qualitatively at the economic agent through the internships, which ensures a good professional training and a predictability of the technical schools. At the bilateral level, the main gain was the professional, managerial and didactic experience, respectively the mutual knowledge of the specifics of the education system from the two countries, as well as a mutual empathy. The results of the study visit mainly contributed to the understanding of the functioning of the technical education systems in the two countries. In conclusion, what made the difference in the involvement of the host organization in the donor state in the project was the different approach of education and training, organizational culture in terms of focusing all educational efforts on human resource development and protection of natural resources in general, all these aspects as a national identity effort.