“Youth in transition” has resulted in a training unit for the application of the online tool for self-evaluation of vocational maturity (intellectual output 5/IO5, module 4).
Vocational maturity can briefly be defined as a combination of those competencies and potentials that are necessary for starting and staying in a job or an internship/apprenticeship. The same is relevant when considering or joining a vocational educational programme.
Progression towards vocational maturity
Young persons´ progression towards vocational maturity are individual pathways in each their own speed, where detours, regress and leaps can occur, differing with a high probability from each other.
The evaluation of vocational maturity relates to the last steps of the taxonomy for the progression of NEETs towards education/job and a life that is desirable for them.
The taxonomy and its indicators have been developed and mutually reviewed (2018-2019) by professional practitioners in the Danish projects Unge med kant Syddanmark and Unge med kant Hovedstaden, and applied in Youth in transition.
Self-evaluation
The Danish, Slovenian and Icelandic partners in Youth in transition have co-developed an interactive tool for selv-evaluating vocational maturity.
Webinar
In Denmark, a webinar is offered as an introduction to the tool and its application to practice. The participants will:
- achieve an understanding of vocational maturity, in the context of the individual development and learning processes of NEETs
- achieve an understanding of the principles and the functionality of the tool
- be able to decide, in which context, where, when and with whom to apply the tool with an added value
- achieve an understanding for how to contextualise the indicators in the tool, such as the questions in the tool become meaningful for each young person
- be able plan an evaluation process regarding the vocational maturity of NEETs, assisted by the tool
The programme contains two parts:
- Part 1) Introduction to the taxonomy and the purpose with the tool.
- Part 2) Technology, the role of the professional, pedagogy and methods, ethical guideline and the first experiences.
Methods
An expert and a practitioner of expertise run the webinar as trainers, using the following methods:
- Presentations
- Question & answers, also via chat
- Group session in virtual break-out rooms
- Individual reflection and contributions via Padlet
- Self-study and self-test via preparation
Preparation, practical information and sustainability
The particpants are asked to prepare on the webinar by a) a trial run of the tool with themselves and b) reading the pdf-guideline.
The first webinars had a duration of 1.5 hours and were extended to 2 hours after the first experiences.
The webinar has been conducted 3 times in 2020 and is scheduled for 2 more dates in 2021 because of high demand. It will be offered after that again, when requested.
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