Transcript E–Training Adults Learn Exploring Native Talents”

E–Training Adults Learn Exploring Native Talents”
GRUNDTVIG LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
2011-2013
This project has been funded with support from the
European Commission
PARTNERS
in alphabetical order
BELGIUM
FRANCE
ITALY
ROMANIA
SPAIN
TURKEY
Catholic University College Limburg,
Belgium
KHLim
“to learn differently,
to build solid reference marks”
ADPI Pédagogie Gattegno
Association pour le Développement de la Pédagogie de l’Individualisation
Association for the Development
of the Pedagogy of Individualization
94, rue Haxo
75020 PARIS
&
88/92 rue Philippe de Girard
75018 PARIS
ECIPA Umbria is a node of the
network ECIPA ITALIA
Perugia: Centro Direzionale Quattrotorri in
Via Corcianese 234/C 06074 Perugia
MODERN LANGUAGE AND
COMPUTER CENTRE
ASSOCIATION
GALATI, ROMANIA
Lifelong Learning
Centre
“Siete Villas”,Spain
KONYA PROVINCIAL DIRECTORATE OF NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROJECTS COORDINATION DEPARTMENT
KONYA, TURKEY
General idea
In our organizations we have a number of very heterogeneous target groups: adult
learners, immigrants, low educated students, students with disabilities, women and
men in rural areas and young people at risk of social marginalization, etc.. Due to
lack of skills and qualifications they were often unsuccessful in former training and
education. Taking into account these findings we want to explore and emphasize
personal talents and abilities of adult learners instead of only focusing on the
needed competences. We want to try to raise the self-esteem of disadvantaged adult
learner groups and help them find hidden resources in themselves for finding new
challenges in life and work. We plan to search and develop ways and specific
methods of exploring and integrating own talents in the learning process of our adult
students. The emphasis is not only on viewing the gaps and weaknesses but viewing
the possibilities and strengths. By this we want to increase the role of adult learners
in their own learning process. We will implement strategies in order to detect the
specific talents and needs of the target groups and involve them in the planning,
implementation and evaluation of the process. ICT (etalents)will have a very
significant role within the process of improving the abilities of adult learners to adapt
themselves to a changing society and to the requirements of the labour market.
Definition of talent
Talents are different than skills or competences, in that they tend to be innate rather
than learned. In development of competences we start from the idea that the learner
knows almost nothing and must acquire and achieve the necessary competences for
the job or life situation. In development of talents/gifts and abilities we are starting from
the idea that the person has a lot of capacities already, but he/she must try to figure
them out. Once the talents are found, they can be nurtured and developed, but finding
them can be tricky. It's partly a process of self-observation and honesty. The rest is
learning and practice. Talents can come in many varieties. They may be artistic or
technical, mental or physical, inwardly or outwardly directed. They need not be
profitable, useful, or conventional, but they will always be your own and a part of what
makes you 'yourself'.
The objective of the accent on talent is to create an innovative total concept for
education and development, which includes improving the integration of the educational
system and professional life for disadvantaged social groups. With this in mind we want
to develop another more integrated vision for the reassessment of technical and
technological professions and education. Our diverse and varied partnership,
geographical and professional complementarities and synergetic collaboration assures
a high standard project in working with disadvantaged adult learners.
Objectives
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The main objectives to which the action/project ETALENTS will contribute:
-Exploring and development of talents and abilities of adult learners, in addition to
their competences using e-technology
-Encouraging adult learners to determine their own learning process by using flexible
learning paths (learn when and where they want, use individualized learning methods
and the variety of didactics, and choose their own speed of learning, learning on
demand, communicating while learning)
--A research about training needs of talented persons
-To create an educational toolbox (database) with different good practices and
methods of finding personal talents and researching new methods of exploring talents
and abilities of adult learners. (Online handbook of good European practice)
-The tool that we propose is a Personal Talents Interview (P.T.I.) to detect the
abilities, capacities, skills, prior experiences and knowledge of each learner of the
target group. Aside the PTI, we will use a questionnaire in order to know the personal
attitude to face different situations under the framework of a work environment
-Sharing experiences and raising the willingness in staff members to cooperate with
talents and stimulating students to explore what they already can as a base for
integrated life long learning.
-Stimulate adults ( both trainers and learners) to use new e-techniques and new etechnologies for appropriate and individualized teaching and learning.
To facilitate the development of innovative practices in adult education and their
transfer, including from aparticipating country to others (GRU-OpObj-4
Approach
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-Designing an electronic toolbox with methods we already use and new developed
methods
-Designing Personal Talents Interview (P.T.I.)
-Sharing ideas, good practices, experiences in finding & developing personal talents
-The learning methods and good practice examples will be tested, discussed and
adjusted in project meetings by learners, trainers, developers, associated partners
-To train staff in applying tools in practice
-Involving local partners
-Organise ICT courses to develop basic skills oriented to the labour market(f.i.
prepare a CV or a job interview)
How : workshops, visits, e-social communication platform (social network), leaflets,
common web site
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We will make an online questionnaire to help people exploring own talents and
develop a toolbox/database with new learning methods and identify good practice
examples in acquiring and development of talents and abilities for a personalized use.
These are pedagogical goals, conceived and developed by the staff of each centre.
The trainers, the staff and the headmasters of each centre are those who will work
out the pedagogical activities. Besides this issue, we work with the active
involvement of learners. The learners will not only actively test the proposed methods
of exploring personal talents but they will also participate in creating good practice
examples, they will locally participate in meetings and discuss together with all the
learners in face-to-face meetings the project topic in which they are actively involved.
The project will be based partially on the input and feedback of the learners.
We think this is an innovative way of increasing the volume of cooperation between
organizations involved in adult education throughout Europe.
Putting accents on talents of disadvantaged adult learners emphasizes and facilitates
the development of innovative practices in adult education and their transfer from one
participating country to another. We will actively involve new learning techniques and
new learning technologies (ICT) for improvement of our project. By this we will
support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and
practice for lifelong learning.