Quality in Vocational Education and Training
Training for Job Service Offices and Orientators of TVET Centres
Language: English, French
Duration: 6 hours
Recipients: VET staff, counsellors and orientators
Objectives:
This course aims to provide a general overview of the employment services developed by CNOS-FAP and called Job Service Offices and intends to provide tools and services that can be potentially replicated in other European VET centres to support young people in their job search.
Contents:
- Presentation of Job Service Offices
- Orientation and Guidance
- Youth and the world of work
- Activities and services offered by JSO
- Skills and soft skills assessment and validation
- Proposal of tools: Company needs survey and Competence portfolio
Methodology:
- Theoretical lectures
Teaching material:
- Ppt presentations and background documents
Awareness Raising on Social Inclusion
Language: English
Duration: 2,5 hours
Recipients: trainers, company tutors, JSOs
Objectives:
The objective with this module is to increase the awareness of companies and specifically their employers towards the inclusion of youth at risk of social exclusion.
Contents:
- 6 Lessons:
- Introduction
- I reduce my prejudice
- Discover their potentialities
- I enrich myself
- Learning assessment
- Feedback session
- Community of Practice
Methodology:
- Theoretical lectures + video + exercises
Teaching material:
- Videos and websites to deepen the topic
Communicating with young people
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours
Recipients: trainers, company tutors, JSOs
Objectives:
When working and communicating with young people in risk of social exclusion it’s important to take into consideration different aspects that may affect the fluency of your communications with him or her.
Firstly, you must understand who they are and their background which will give you an idea of the areas of improvement and the strengths the young person you will work with will have. For this, it’s important to have at least one first “in depth meeting” with their academic professor or tutor who might tell you a little about the young person and their academic performance so far.
Once you have this first information the next step will be to actually get to know the young person. For this, in this module we will present you with some tools to conduct this first interview and set the dynamic and objectives of his or her internship experience.
Finally, we will share a set of communication competences that will be orientated to teaching you how to manage fluent and productive communications to avoid misunderstandings and to favour a positive development of the young person’s internship. These communication skills are going to be applicable to any sort of human relationship as well since all human interactions require certain elements to function correctly. It important for you to understand that behind many of these young person’s deficits is a lack of social education and orientation that most people would receive at home or in normalized schooling environments.
Contents:
- 8 Lessons:
- Introduction
- Recollection of feedback on the young person – meeting the academic educator
- Recollection of feedback on the young person – meeting the youngster
- Communication Skills
- Digitalization tools helpful for developing the objectives of this module
- Learning assessment
- Feedback session
- Community of Practice
Methodology:
- Theoretical lectures + video + exercises
Teaching material:
- Videos and websites to deepen the topic
Motivation and leadership
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours
Recipients: trainers, company tutors, JSOs
Objectives:
When working with young people and specially those who come from vulnerable backgrounds we may find that due to their low self-esteem and low self-confidence they struggle getting motivated or believing in themselves enough to try to do things on their own or learn new things.
Many times, we may confuse certain attitudes with boredom, laziness, indifference, but behind them there could be a lack of self-confidence and motivation you as a professional mentor can help overcome. To do this in this module we will share some key elements to boost the self-esteem and self-confidence of others and some leadership traits you as a professional mentor should have to help the young person bring out all the potential they have within themselves.
Contents:
- 6 Lessons:
- Emotional Background
- Face news challenges
- Accepting failure and mistakes
- Being a mentor and leader
- Learning assessment
- Feedback session
Methodology:
- Theoretical lectures + video + exercises
Teaching material:
- Videos and websites to deepen the topic
Preventing the drop-out of training
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours
Recipients: trainers, company tutors, JSOs
Objectives:
In a research study entitled “What the World’s Young People think and feel” it emerges how Generation Z (born between 1996 and 2000) puts happiness at the center of everything. For young people, the factors that determine happiness are above all human relationships with friends and family, but also feeling satisfied in study and work (89% of respondents responded).
If Millennials are still willing to sacrifice their lives for the needs of the company, Generation Z seems much more focused on their own well-being and this poses a challenge to companies: in order to attract the best talent, they must organize themselves to offer them a serene working environment.
Happiness in the company therefore becomes a valuable ally also in the prevention and management of stress, as well as a strong drive to achieve professional goals.
Happiness can drive people to the maximum and generate results for the business, provided, however, that it is considered a strategic priority.
Contents:
- 14 Lessons:
- Identify prior skills and individual resources of the student/apprentice
- Plan the training plan according to the peculiarities of the young student/apprentice
- Manage reception and insertion
- Accompanying socialization work paths
- To take care of the realization of the activity’ of formal and not formal learning inside the enterprise
- Monitor the training of the young student/apprentice
- Support the learner in overcoming barriers to learning
- Manage relations with internal and/or external parties involved in the training of the young student/apprentice
- Plan actions specifically dedicated to non-formal training activities
- Utilize the outcome of the evaluation as an additional training opportunity
- Reference documents
- Learning assessment
- Feedback session
- Community of Practice
Methodology:
- Theoretical lectures + video + exercises
Teaching material:
- Videos and websites to deepen the topic