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A Faller Jenő Szakképző Iskola és Kollégium tanuló..
A Faller Jenő Szakképző Iskola és Kollégium tanulóinak és munkatársainak horvátországi mobilitása a gépészet és kereskedelem területén
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The institution of Faller Jeno Vocational School and Student Hostel is a traditional vocational training institution located in the town of Varpalota, Hungary. At present, we are training about 500 students at secondary technical and vocational levels. Trade-marketing and mechanics are the most numerous ones among the various professional fields provided. In the past few years, we took part in several mobility programmes involving the teachers and students from the fields mentioned above. The experiences of these projects, just like our students and colleagues facing the increased requirements, motivate us to take part in right from the first circle of ERASMUS+ that is initiated in 2014. This year’s tender contains our projected mobility activities concerning the school year of 2014-2015. A European project-experienced, and a known Croatian partner institution, the Industrijsko-abrtnicka skola from Nova Gridska, was chosen by us. Since the Croatian school plans mobility activities in our institution as well that may supplement our own project, our tender is highly based on the principal of mutuality.
Our project includes the following elements: we organise an extensive training for the colleagues provided by the Croatian partner institution. The participants will be chosen from among the theoretical teachers of metalwork and trade, vocational and practical trainers, leaders of the given professional field, and from the teachers of foreign language for specific purposes with the use of internal tenders. The most important fields of the extensive training are: the comparison of vocational training the partner countries, and in other EU member countries; the role of certificates proving vocational training, the formal, non-formal and informal ways of gaining knowledge, the acknowledgement of skills and competences at European level; the role of lifelong learning from the perspective of vocational trainers. Throughout the training, the practical training sites will be visited and methodologies will be demonstrated to the visitors. In March 2015 eight students of metalwork, namely speaking welders, central heating and gas pipeline fitters, take part in a 19-day-long practical training in the Croatian vocational school.
According to the work-programme, the training should be accomplished in the school workshop throughout the first two weeks, while the rest of the training takes place in a workshop of a local industrial park provided by the partner institution on the fifth workday of the third week. During the training period, a project work-like mutual activity takes place working together with the students of the partner institution. The most important activities of the training focus on the basic knowledge of metalwork, producing metal structures; renewable energy, utilizing solar and wind energy; gas fitting, assembling gas measurement units, and pipeline fitting works. Students are helped by teachers attending the mobility. The travel itself is preceded by a substantial pre-training in case of both groups. After selecting the participants, we have constructed a four-week long syllabus for the teachers and a four-month long syllabus for the students. In case of an active student and teacher participation and a successful tender, exercising mutual influence and synergy should be emphasised as connected to our mobility activities. Getting people acquainted with the expected influence and results of the mobility, a wide-scale popularisation and aiming for the most useful application of them has high priority for us. We expect the programme to reinforce our colleagues and students’ devotion to their fields of profession on the short run. It is also expected that members of both target groups develop themselves and their needs towards more modern methodologies, accept the role of European mutual work on a higher level, our teachers’ knowledge of methodology widens, and our students’ professional knowledge and command of a foreign language should also be developed. On the long run, we expect the newly gained pedagogical knowledge to be implemented in the practical education. The European level of professional knowledge, skills and competences are required to be acquired and used on a high level, while taking them into consideration when changing the vocational syllabus or the structure itself. The attitude of enterprises providing facilities for practical training shall also change on the long run. We would like to develop the attitude of our present-day students, making a better public opinion of the school while increasing the number of enrolling students at the same time, and we also aim to provide a better reputation of the activities available in our institution. We do aim to take part in further projects of ERASMUS+ while making the mobility activities and their consequences key elements of the structural culture of our school.