Labour market and active learning in education - NFP
The ambition to make an effective and meaningful contribution to improve the quality of education to become demand driven and an answer to the professional needs in the labour market. Following this course will help you to become more performant in educational development from the perspective of reality of the classroom and the labour market and as such contribute to improved employability of graduates.
Participants
You are a teacher, instructor, professor or adviser in education. You have 3-5 years of work experience.
This course is meant for professionals to enable them to contribute to employability and life long learning and closing the gap between education and work.
Course duration
Two weeks, separate or as follow up on the competence based learning course
Course objectives
You will acquire the ability to monitor labour market dynamics in your direct environment and introduce this in the lessons. You will learn to work in a multi-stakeholder environment responding to the needs of the users of the education: students and their parents, enterprises and public institutions. You will be able to translate these in change strategies and interactive learning methods like project oriented learning and problem based education where learning takes place in real work situations. You will learn to use inclusive approaches and methods in the management of the classroom.
Subjects will be: a broad scope of methods in labour market studies, management of demand driven education in the classroom, inclusive active learning methods and materials development, facilitation techniques, course design and field visits.
It is facilitated by an effective partnering by two experienced training and education institutions.
Course Outline
| Day 1 | Introduction, objectives, programme Principles of Competence Based Learning Change agent and change management in your institution |
| Day 2 | Labour market and educational development processes Building up your case study Set up of labour market studies Methods in use |
| Day 3 | Field visit Visit to Student Entrepreneur Centre |
| Day 4 | Designing a labour market study Data processing Reporting |
| Day 5 | Communication skills Active listening of students and stakeholders Use of feed back in teaching Teambuilding Week evaluation |
| Day 6 | Experiential learning Curriculum development and needs of labour market Sequencing of courses |
| Day 7 | Learning in real workplace Material Development: Graphic recording Learning objectives and assessment in active learning processes |
| Day 8 | Visit to learning Enterprises Prepare lesson |
| Day 9 | Facilitation skills Coaching of colleagues Peer coaching in teaching and learning |
| Day 10 | Deliver an active learning lesson Preparation and presentation of Action Plan Evaluation and Closing |
Funding
There is funding available for this course in 2011 through the Nuffic Fellowship Programme (NFP). See our webpage on sponsorships
For the rules and regulations governing fellowships from the NFP and application forms, go to the Nuffic website: www.nuffic.nl/nfp or contact the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of your country. Please note that you should allow sufficient time for processing your application, well in advance of the programme.
Application deadline
7 February 2012 - for the course taking place from 3 - 14 September 2012
