The 21st-century soft skills for teachers in VET - an update

Nieuws, geplaatst op 13-9-2022

In 2021 MBO College Airport presented an interesting Erasmus-founded project: ‘The ‘21st-century soft skills for teachers in VET’-project. A Project which involves VET schools from three European countries: Riga Technical School of Tourism and Creative Industry (Latvia), FU International Academy Tenerife (Spain) and ROC van Amsterdam-Flevoland / MBO College Airport (The Netherlands).

Today I want to share the progress we have made so far. Call it a teaser!

In this project, we focussed on those soft skills, European teachers need, in order to be able to support their students while facing all the daily new challenges that the fast-changing professional environment offers them.
We started by defining the 5 most essential soft skills for teachers. The list of 21st-century soft skills defined by the Global Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the international strategic document ‘Directorate for education and skills’ served as a starting point for the research.
This became quite a thorough analysis based on a broad survey on teachers, students and company workers (for more details about the way of inquiring, please contact l.prando@rocva.nl).

After analysing and comparing the results of the survey, these are the 5 skills that turned out to be the most chosen ones:
1. Initiative
2. Creative thinking
3. Innovation
4. Collaboration
5. Self-reflection

After that, the three partners in this project (Latvia, Spain and the Netherlands) started to dig into each and every one of the skills, in order to develop a teachers’ training, meant to be free for all teachers in Europe (and outside!).

Project name: 21st-century soft skills for teachers in VET
Project number: 2020-1-LV01-KA202-077561
Coordinator: Riga Technical School of Tourism and Creative Industry
Partners: FU International Academy Tenerife, ROC van Amsterdam-Flevoland / MBO College Airport
Duration: 01/09/2020 – 31/08/2022 postponed to 31/12/2022

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