Transcript STANDARDS IN THE MARKET PLACE (EDUCATION)

STANDARDS FOR
COMMUNITY TOURISM
(EDUCATION)
PRESENTATION AT
The Jamaica Community Tourism Symposium & the 1st
IIPT Caribbean Community Tourism Conference &
Trade Show
May 23 - 26, 2003
Wyndham Rosehall & Country Club, Montego Bay, St. James
Presenter: Leo Gordon
Challenges facing Education &
Training
• Our training system must be founded
on standards and recognized
qualifications based on competence the performance required of
individuals to do their work
successfully and satisfactorily.
David Matthews (Employment for the
..90’s)
Definition...
“Standards are measures of the
quality of...
• Products
• Processes
• Performance of individual worker skills
Competency standards state ...
• what is expected of a worker performing a
particular occupational role. They describe
the minimum outcome of performance that
the worker is expected to meet.
Competency Standards define
• What a worker should be able to do
• How well the job is to be done
• The range of instances of performing
that particular job
• A clear statement of proof of a worker’s
ability
The Changing Labour market
•Economies have moved from manufacturing to providing
information and services and from being national to global.
•Workers are competing for jobs against those in their own
country and around the world
•Technology creates new jobs, makes old ones obsolete and
changes the workplace
•People need New skills, new training and new abilities.
Standardization has become a
global reality
Individual
Company
Business Sector
Economy
standards seek to
define
•Human Relation practices
•Health and Safety practices
•Technical know-how or procedures
Benefits of COMPETENCY
Standards
• Enhance opportunity for advancement
and re-entry into the workplace
• Make explicit the skill levels needed
to compete for jobs
• Provide a clear basis for identifying
competence
Benefits of COMPETENCY
Standards
• Help to offer appropriate training, assessment and
certification services
•Provide the basis for informing the development of
relevant instructional materials
•What people have to do and how well they do it can
readily be understood by trainers/educators and
the person being assessed
Linking Learning to the World
of Work
• A critical concern of the TVET System is
the relationship between the world of
learning and the world of work and the
mechanisms by which experience of one
is a preparation for participation in the
other.
TRAINING
•
Competency-Based Training uses a
systematic approach to developing,
delivering, and assessing training
1. What to teach
The Competencies to be achieved are
rigorously identified, verified and made
public in advance of instruction.
2. How to teach
The instructional programme provides for
individual development and evaluation of
each of the competencies specified.
3. What to Test
Assessment of competency takes the
learner’s knowledge and attitudes into
account by requiring actual performance
of the competency as the primary source
of evidence.
4. How to Test/Evaluate
Criteria to be used in assessing
achievement and the conditions under
which achievement will be assessed are
explicitly stated and made public.
5. How to Structure Learners Progress
Learners progress through the instructional
programme, at their own best rate, by
demonstrating the attainment of specified
competencies.
Why Competency Standards
• Expected performance is known
• Students can work ahead of class
• Carry-out assignments more effectively
• Greater participation in the learning process
• Increased confidence and self-motivation
• Able to track own development
Training Team
Learning
Environment
Assessor
Instructor
Learner
Institutional
Administrator
Employer