Participating institutions:
- Center for School Quality and Teacher Education (Zentrum fuer Schulqualitaet und Lehrerbildung, ZSL) – Unit 43, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
- Savo Vocational College, Kuopio, Finland
Within the framework of the project, two visits to the project partner by each delegation have been conducted.
Project Goals
- Shadowing exemplary lessons focusing on the "use of digital devices".
- Exchange with colleagues on the opportunities and limits of digital devices in the classroom.
- Consideration of the different framework conditions.
- Exchange on the necessary and even desirable conditions for successful teaching with a focus on "BYOD".
Framework conditions
School system
The Finnish vocational school system is modular. Students attend a module if they are able to do so from a company perspective, or if
the content is suitable for the current training phase. There is therefore no fixed group of students that regularly attend classes
together.
At Baden-Wuerttemberg’s vocational schools, students attend lessons every week for one and a half days and they work for three and a half days at the training company. Some of the classes are taught in blocks (weekly alternation between school and company).
In both countries, class size varies between 10 and 30 students, depending on the module and/or occupation.
Use of digital devices
Bring your own device (BYOD): Students use digital end devices of their training company. Classes are designed in a way that these can be used regardless of platform and operating system. Digital documents are made accessible, for example, via QR codes or previously introduced platforms that are independent of operating systems.
Schedule of the project
Mobilities in Finland and Germany
- Observation of lessons using digital devices in the classroom in vocational education.
- Exchange with the project partners and teachers involved about methods, advantages and disadvantages, good practice examples, implementation, testing of new lessons, collecting feedback from students and teachers
Online Collaboration
- Analysis of the situation before and after the pandemic regarding online teaching and digital devices in teaching in vocational education,
- Analysis of existing digital teaching modules including methods/materials.
Project results
- Seven good-practice examples for BYOD teaching in vocational education,
- one brief overview of the BYOD in Vocational education and training (VET) project,
- one background paper (overview of the pandemic situation at vocational schools in the Savo region and Baden-Wuerttemberg),
- videos on BYOD in VET,
- Project website (of Finnish project partner Sakky) with our project results.
All information and materials about the project can also be found on the website of the European
Commission.
Contact: dirk.riebesell[at]zsl.kv.bwl.de
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