Evaluation

Impact and European added value...

EXPECTED IMPACT OF THE PROJECT

- sharing and enlarging each other’s experience
- getting to know other educational approaches and practices
- creating and using new teaching tools
- encouraging learners’ mobility
- Improving self learning as a consequence of new knowledge and experience
- increasing the general quality of available European training programmes
- Strengthening European relationship and enabling shared action as part of a European Bond.

POSITIVE OUTFALL

- generating a common culture among participants around the themes discussed.
- sharing and boosting the dynamics of each educational team.
- federating various people’s energy around a European project.
- appropriating ICT as a privileged communications channel (an implicit consequence of the physical distance separating the people taking part in the project)
- increasing participants’ linguistic competences

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December 2009

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SYNTHESIS

Some participants arrived in Poitiers the day before, so we organised a tour in the center of Poitiers during the morning.

25/11 – afternoon in Poitiers

1) presentation of each partner
2) presentation of the Greta Network, and of the story of the project
3) welcome speech of M. MICHELIN : presentation of the region, of the main aim of the project
4) regional direction for work, employment and vocational training: how are the key competences workshops financed in France ?
5) regional agency for lifelong training: the support offered by the regional agency and the GIP to the training structures and to the trainers of the key competences workshops.
6) Exchange of gifts and reception

APP Châtellerault (pedagogical and individual workshop) – 26/11 – morning

1) welcome by president Varenne

2) presentation of the French education system (Micheline and Sylvie)


3) brief presentation of the different services offered by a GRETA (training structure depending on the French ministry of education which answers to anybody – unemployed persons, salaried employees, individuals persons – needing a training (up to standard training, training ending with an official qualification, a diploma) in the sectors of: building, industry, tertiary services, computer services and general and in general or cross curricular fields.

4) Presentation of the APP and its works, Explanation of the basic guidelines:
- the concept of individual training path with a system of permanent “in and out”
- the concept of individualized pedagogy
- the concept of self training
- the concept of pedagogical support
- the concept of up to standard training as first step in a path (short paths as well)
At the APP in Châtellerault: up to standard training and preparation to selective exams. No training ending with a diploma.
For the APP program, we were registered after a State proposal regarding the unemployed persons “key competences” fort up to standard training at level 5 and under. This represents 75 to 80 % of our trainees and we do have salaried persons, different kinds of national agreements (for instance: individual right for training…)

5) Presentation of tools: trainee booklet, learning tools…

6) Discovering the resources centre, a room of a pedagogical one to one, a computer room

7) Presentation of “E-Greta”, Sylvie offers to each partner to receive a login and to send them the tools used in the training sequence implemented at the APP about “learning to learn”

8) Presentation of the on going works about the key competence “learning to learn:
a. The different orientations of the concept “learning to learn”
b. The sequence proposed at the arrival at the APP (start December 2009)
c. The cross curricula sequences (start 2010)

26/11 – afternoon - La Rochelle

16.00: discovering the city of La Rochelle
18.00 GRETA Aunis Atlantique
- welcome by president Jezequel
- Presentation of the website
- Choice of the periods for the next meetings: Rome (26/27/28 of may 2010); Vienna (13/14/15 of October 2010), Brno (6/7/8 of April 2011), Sofia (29/30/31 of may 2011)
- Discussion about the training tools transfer.

27/11 – morning - La Rochelle

Presentation of the programs “key competences” in La Rochelle and Rochefort. Presentation of the Bel Air zone in La Rochelle

1) Audrey VIZUETE, trainer for level 1, 2 and 3

Work on the topic “remotivation”: individual interviews
before integrating the groups for the level 1 and 2, the future learners are received for a personal interview during which different aspects of the training path are discussed:
- During this interview, the learner explains his itinerary before coming at the GRETA and why he is planning a training;
- He explains his vocational project and with the help of the trainer, compares it with his training;
- The learner has to identify himself the interesting, positive and attractive aspects and consequences of the training in order to sustain his motivation;
- Exercises are done to give a positive light on the knowledges of the learner and to identify with him his weaknesses which are going to be worked during his training;
- The calendar of the training sessions, a plan of the training path is given to the learner.
It is important to know that the learner is not paid during his training; so the motivation is the main driving force for the investment in the learning and training process.

Adaptation of the learning methods to each learner
We have to remind each learner that they already get a certain number of knowledges which could have been forgotten. Development of theirs cognitive skills and deductive reasoning. We have to help them to strengthen their skills and the pedagogy used consist in repeating many times the same thing with a regular rhythm of courses, study of different topics.

Concrete goals are defined:
For the learner:
- to learn to deal with success and failure
- to understand his own way of working (this is the learning strategy)
- to know his limits
For the trainer:
- to adapt and to individualize the learning approach to the difficulties of each person (for instance to deal with concentration problems)
- to customize the support with adapted exercises.

c. the group approach

• Organization:
o groups of 12 persons
o 6 hours per day
o A permanent trainer
o Group works, mini-groups or solo works
o The working area: tables are set up for a global meeting, or in two working areas to facilitate the solo or mini group works.

• learning approach:
o round discussion to learn to listen to each other, to remember the information, to be able to repeat the information.
o Discussion about the topic: “why learning to learn?”
o Discussion about the topic: “what is intelligence?” (to identify the different forms of intelligence)
o Identification of the positive factors of motivation
o Memorization exercises
o Other exercises: to be able to identify his position in the space and in the time (work on a timetable)

Individual approach
Self evaluation exercises:
This double approach (individual and group approach) has many vantages. For the learner, it makes concrete the common expectations, allows to learn to respect each other, to prevent isolation, to enrich the points of views. The group work allows to implement a mutual help (the strongest are helping the weakest, depending on the studied skills).

The cross curricular approach
- The heart of each field of competence
- The trainee booklet (kept at the GRETA and the trainee is responsible of this document) plays an essential role. It is made of: a board with for each competence and the goals of each course, the period of the learning sessions, what is to be done, what the learner as already done, what has not been done or misunderstood.
- All the trainers have to use the same vision of the competence “learning to learn”, but each trainer has his own tools to achieve this goal.

Presentation of different tools: trainee booklet, learning session (learning by playing)

2) Dominique Chailloleau: trainer for level 3 and 4

Presentation of the interview at the arrival of the trainee.
- implementation of the integration session (from 3 to 9 hours)
> session n° 1: discussion, meeting, timetable
> session n°2: assessment, using different kinds of materials
At the beginning, it is important to asses the motivation and the concept of belonging to a group. From this point, an individual training program is implemented with a regular support described in the trainee booklet (computer files).

The two mains support tolls are the trainee booklet and the timetable. The training sessions at the centre and the solo works are registered.

Question: what is done when the training goals are not achieved?
- With a public funding: a report is written with a new dialogue around the training program. A new training proposal is made with the description of the acquired knowledges and the one to be acquired.
- With a private funding: a training certificate is given after a certain number of training hours with the description of the acquired competences.

EVALUATIONS

• DECEMBER 2009
• JUNE 2010
• DECEMBER 2010
• MAY 2011
• AUGUST 2011