Pekka Kämäräinen participated at the consultation workshop of the project “VET teachers and trainers”. The workshop was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, from the 30.10. - 31.10.2008. Pekka presented a brief report on the TTplus project to stimulate the discussion among the participants.
The TTplus project took part in the first online conference about trainers in Europe.
Eduardo Figueira and Eileen Luebcke presented the framework and feedback from the focus groups.
Recordings of all session and conference materials can be found here:
People interested in our project will realize a change: what we used to call the TTplus accreditation document is know called the TTplus consultation document. The content is the same but thanks to our evaluator Bernd Baumgartl who has always a keen eye on the wording of our documents, we changed the title of the document. His remark was something like “the notion of accreditation sounds too formal” and we agreed.
Once again the TTplus team has met for a virtual discussion. Äli, Pekka, and I took part in it.
Äli reported the outcome of two stakeholder interviews gathered in the feedback process for our framework. We came across two fundamentally opposite impressions: One interviewee reported that the framework is too old fashioned because it puts an emphasize on the individual trainer instead on the team or organisational level. The focus group interviewed found the TTplus framework highly innovative with regards to the recommendation of electronic tools.
We discussed this high variation in the perception of the framework and came to the following conclusion: The first opinion was expressed by a member of a company which works with freelance trainers as well as with employed trainers. This company does not care about the professional development of their freelance trainer but focus on the employed trainer which our interview partner perceived as a matter to be addressed on team or organisational level. Since the TTplus frameworks tries to include any kind of trainer, the individual level for a professional development has been integrated to include freelance trainers.
We want to emphasize that the TTplus framework can be contextualized and adapted to a certain organisational background. With regard to the above mentioned example one might want to stress the team level as well as the organisational level in their importance for the professional development of trainers. Nevertheless it should be clear that the TTplus team has designed the TTplus framework as a holistic one. We have created commitments for individual level, team level, organisational level as well as stakeholder level like governmental bodies. We believe that the professional development of trainers should be (and can become) a relevant topic on each of these levels and only through affords at every level the European trainers will become well-equipped and prepared for the current and future challenges to the European workforce.
The TTplus accreditation document can be downloaded as a document from the page “TTplus framework”.
Nikitas Patiniotis, the Greek TTplus partner, has conducted a series of innovative dissemination events in Chania (Crete), Sparti (Southern Pelopennese), Volos (Thessaly), and Patras (Northwestern Pelopennese). University researchers, members of the town hall, the local section of the Association of Sociologists as well as representatives of the employers and employees but also the broader public of respective regions came together.
The structure of the different events has been the following one:
These dissemination events have been a big success. The strategy to contextualize the TTplus project strongly and to put a big emphasis on the problem that has led to it, created a lot of interest in the topic and in our project. Nikitas, an experienced researcher for years, got the impression that those more general dissemination events are more successful than events that focus on the specific results of a single project. It supports the linkages between TTplus project and other projects in this area thus creating a kind of “connectivity dissemination” instead of a simple “result-orientated dissemination”.
The TTplus project has met yesterday for its monthly flashmeeting. Pekka, Nikitas, Äli and I had an interesting discussion with a variety of topics: Nikitas reported from the focus groups and dissemination activities in Greece, Pekka explained how he will use the TTplus framework to join the German debate on professionalisation of trainers. He also sketched three different training landscapes in Europe. You can join the flashmeeting again and listen to the replay by following the link:
TTplus project will present its framework for professional development at the conference “This Learning Life 2″ in Bristol, 19th of June 2008.
http://thislearninglife.org/content/index.php
The TTplus project is developing a framework for professional development of trainers. This framework will consist of two main documents: the “TTplus principle document” and the “TTplus accreditation document”.
The principle document is now uploaded to the website, you can find it under the webpage “TTplus framework”. The document describes the main principles which underly the framework.
The accreditation document is currently undergoing a final review and will be uploaded soon.
The third evaluation brief from our evaluator navreme knowledge development has been published on this website. If you are interested in the progress of our project, you can download the document at the side “evaluation”.
The TTplus team will meet for another flashmeeting in May, 9th from 15:00-16:30 CET. Main discussion point will be the use of the flashmeeting to create a pool of examples to enrich the TTplus framework.
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