PROGRAMME DE FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE EN IMMERSIO..
PROGRAMME DE FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE EN IMMERSION
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 1, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
This project aims to offer young people at vocational school - some of whom have never been abroad and have not necessarily benefited from international contact – the opportunity to carry out one of their training periods in a European Union country in order to develop their autonomy, to discover a different working culture and environment, as well as to improve their language skills.
Our first mobility project enabled us to send 14 business students abroad and their very positive feedback has encouraged us to renew the project this year.
We have chosen to offer this opportunity primarily to pupils in their penultimate year of the Business Studies Vocational Baccalaureate. The commercial sector offers many opportunities for work placements, allowing participants to achieve the objectives stipulated in the curriculum during their on-the-job training. The main activities which participants will carry out during their work experience include: welcoming customers, preparing sales, providing advice, acquiring technical knowledge about products that is necessary to sell them, communicating in the workplace and the ability to adapt to the characteristics of the country (sizes, measures, currencies, cultural customs...).
This sector has the advantage of allowing young people to be in contact with customers in the target country, which is a great training tool on both cultural and linguistic levels.
We would also like to offer this experience to pupils in their penultimate year of the Management and Administration Vocational Baccalaureate. This revised baccalaureate has replaced that in Secretarial Skills and Accountancy and now offers better prospects for work placements abroad with regard to the skills to be validated - welcoming in person, answering the telephone and administrative management tasks that involve less expertise but more versatility. As such, we will need to envisage a level of fluency in the language of the target country as a prerequisite.
At the end of their training, the young people will be encouraged to apply to different types of organisation (associations, local authorities, small or medium-sized businesses...) requiring linguistic knowledge that favours exchanges with foreign partners.
Participants will be accommodated with host families in England or in B&Bs for young students in Spain; they will be looked after and monitored by tutors of the intermediary organisations, who will offer logistical support as necessary.
Participants will need to validate the professional skills referenced in the curriculum of the Vocational Baccalaureate in Business Studies. Academic evaluation grids will be translated into the target languages and assessments will be made by the tutors of the intermediary host bodies.
Thanks to this stay, participants will learn about various practices and professional organisations. They will open up to other working cultures. This should enable them to progress in languages and give a sense to their learning modern languages.
The potential benefits in the long term - in addition to cultural openness and better understanding of the challenges and benefits of a European area - are to offer better prospects for integration and pursuing studies in higher education and a better ability to integrate and evolve in the working world.
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