Advanced Competencies of Teachers to Improve Vocational Education in Applied Technology Schools

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The ACTIVE-ATS project’s objective is strengthening TVET teachers’ and trainers’ capacity to work in competence-based TVET, which is implemented in a cooperation with the world of work. The project will enhance the teachers’ and trainers’ competencies in pedagogy, student-centered approach and technical specialist work-based learning. This is done by a) clarifying the teachers’ and trainers’ roles in the new learning culture, b) piloting a pedagogical enhancement programme and c) implementing new kind of collaboration between schools and companies to support technical specialist competence of teachers through work-based learning in TVET. The actions will support both the pedagogical and technical competencies of teachers. The project will be piloted in cooperation with Applied Technology Schools (ATS). The ATS private sector partners will be involved in the activities in several work packages. ATS are the Flagship Brand of Schools by the Ministry of Education and Technical Education (MoETE), which is the biggest TVET provider in Egypt and partner in the project. 5 out of 27 ATS are associate partners in the project. 50 teachers and trainers will take part into pilot activities of the projects. There are altogether 1300 students and 175 staff in these five schools. ATS have competence-based curriculum and implement work-based learning for TVET learners. ATS are included in Egypt’s educational TVET strategy and identified to have potential in other African countries. The commitment of MoETE and ATS enables the grounds for genuine medium and long-term impacts of the project’s outputs. Based on the activities in the project, the partners will prepare guidelines for in-service teachers’ and trainers’ competence development and implementation of work-based TVET for both authority- and school-level use. Guidelines will include the aspects to carry out the engagement of the private sector to promote the relevance of technical and vocational education.