{"id":1069,"date":"2018-09-24T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isabellgru.eu\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2019-02-15T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T13:30:12","slug":"apprent-meeting-castelldefels-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isabellgru.eu\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/apprent-meeting-castelldefels-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"ApprEnt-Meeting: Castelldefels Edition."},"content":{"rendered":"
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ApprEnt Meeting in Castelldefels<\/p><\/div>\n

Once again it was ApprEnt-Meeting-Time – not virtually, but face-to-face, the real thing! The venue: Castelldefels, a little town next to Barcelona. The perfect place: Away from the busy city, all project partners in one hotel.<\/p>\n

Promote a shared understanding in virtual teams<\/h2>\n

Atmosphere makes a difference! Starting from talking to the project partners informally at breakfast to gathering at the beach bistro for informal debriefing after the meeting: Promoting a shared understanding at its best. Communication is especially important for teams, who usually don’t see each other often. We used the workshop-sessions to discuss the different perspectives on higher apprenticeships.<\/p>\n

The ApprEnt Case Studies are going online!<\/h2>\n
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Castelldefels-Meeting: Picture of us discussing skills & competences of mentors<\/p><\/div>\n

We decided that the 36 case studies will go online. There is much valuable situation from these different experiences in higher apprenticeships in different countries. But we also understood, that it needs an easy way for the reader to approach the case studies and to find out which of them are relevant. Therefore, we discussed category-headings to structure the case studies.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span>\u00a0Qualification level
\n\"\"<\/span>\u00a0Programme promotors
\n\"\"<\/span>\u00a0Company size
\n\"\"<\/span>\u00a0Access requirements for students
\n\"\"<\/span>Curriculum design
\n\"\"\u00a0Type of\u00a0<\/span>Mentorship
\n\"\"\u00a0<\/span>Tools used in Mentorship<\/span>
\n\"\"\u00a0Industry Sector\/ profession (Big thank you to Pooja\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Gianchandani<\/a> for the contribution of this category!)<\/p>\n

The Mentor Training: Defining skills and competences of a higher apprenticeship mentor<\/h2>\n
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Connecting theory and practice through ePortfolio and mentoring – slide from my VPET18 presentation<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

The role of mentors is crucial in higher apprenticeships<\/a>, they support the sense-making between practice and theory. It needs both, mentors in the company as well as mentors in higher education. Formative feedback plays and essential role in competence development and the ePortfolio-approach can help to document the learning process as well as make the learning outcome visible. Learn more about how the ePortfolio can support higher apprenticeships in my #VPET18 presentation from June 2018<\/a>!<\/p>\n

We discussed which skills and competences mentors in companies and higher education need to support the learning process. Based on our discussions, the\u00a0LEVEL UP! WORKPLACE TUTOR GOES EUROPE-Guide<\/a>\u00a0(Thank you to Johanna Vainio for sharing!) and the ePortfolio learning cycle (based on ATS2020<\/a>), I drafted 6 modules and learning outcomes – a basis for the didactical concept of mentor training, which we want to provide as an outcome of the ApprEnt-project. The didactical concept will be drafted by project partners and it will be discussed during the national ApprEnt-workshop sessions, which will take place in several European countries this autumn\/winter. The goal is to develop a blueprint for a training design, which can be used by companies and universities to train their mentors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The first draft of the training concept: 6 Modules<\/h2>\n
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Hotel-Pool in Castelldefels – no, I didn’t fall into the pool accidentally \ud83d\ude00<\/p><\/div>\n

These are the 6 module, which I am proposing for the mentor-training. In Austria, we are planning to design it as an open online course – people can choose which modules are relevant for them.<\/p>\n

M<\/b>odule 1: The apprentice\u2019 learning process<\/b><\/p>\n

Module 2: Planning the learning strategy in the company\u2019s context<\/b><\/p>\n

Module 3: Supporting the learning process<\/b><\/p>\n

Module 4: Using digital tools to support the learning process<\/b><\/p>\n

Module 5: Advocacy<\/b><\/p>\n

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ApprEnt Meeting Outcomes<\/p><\/div>\n

Module 6: Self-Development<\/b><\/p>\n

Next Steps<\/h2>\n

As next steps my ApprEnt colleagues are checking the proposed learning outcomes. Maybe we find out that some modules are matching to the needs of other countries, maybe a few others are not applicable. I assume in the end, there could be different training concepts for the different participating countries. If you want to learn more about the situation in Austria – I have recorded a podcast with Robert Frasch in Castelldefels – check it out \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Together with Robert Frasch I will prepare the ApprEnt Workshop in Krems on the 12th of December. Keep you posted! Cheers!<\/p>\n

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Cheers, everyone! Well deserved frozen strawberry #daiquiri after a day full of meetings. Plus had a nice swim and some yoga at the beach with my colleagues from the #ApprEnt_EU project. Super nice. Feeling connected with the team, even though we usually meet virtually over the year, as we are from very different European countries \ud83d\udc4c\u2728\ud83c\udfd6\ufe0f\ud83c\udf0a #lovedailydose #workhardplayhard #instadaily #igersviennaontour #igerskrems #igersvienna #igersaustria #igersaustriaontour #igersspain #igersbarcelona #teambuilding #erasmusplus #cocktail #communitybuilding #beach<\/a><\/p>\n

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