Within the cooperation framework between the Programme “Reform of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Viet Nam” and partner colleges, GIZ’s Development Advisors (DA) – Simon Parthum & Mirco Rudolph had conducted a series of 3 capacity training workshops on “German standard oriented Mechatronics Teaching & learning materials (TLM) development” for 24 teachers from 3 colleges (An Giang Vocational College, Long An College and Ninh Thuan Vocational College) in the time frame of 21st September to 20th October 2022 at Long An College. The training focuses on developing a unified set of TLM, fostering collaboration between colleges, and forming strong working groups for the tasks at hand.
In these training sessions, DAs shared knowledge on the fundamental concept and different sorts of TLM, overview structure of TLM template and advised the implementation steps. Also, DAs together with the teachers discussed the difficulties that they have during their daily teaching activities and proposed the solutions to resolve them.
Talking about the workshops, Mr. Simon said, “Personally, I consider the direct exchange during the workshops to be particularly important in order to better understand the barriers of the Module responsible teachers and also how and where we can provide targeted support to break them down. Creating and improving high-quality TLMs is a challenging work task, which often means additional work that is overshadowed by everyday tasks. However, an up-to-date TLM represents one of the most important cornerstones for high-quality vocational training. That’s why Mirco and I decided on this workshop concept, which was announced as the kick-off event for further activities to complete the TLM.”
At the end of the training, all participating teachers responded positively to the content and results of the training. The teachers also suggested the Programme to continue organizing other intensive training courses to gain more knowledge and sharpen related skills.
The Programme “Reform of TVET in Viet Nam” is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in cooperation with the Vietnamese Directorate of Vocational Education and Training (DVET) under the Ministry of Labour – Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA). The Programme aims to better align TVET to the changing world of work which will be increasingly digital and green.
