TTnet Annual Conference

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TTnet Annual Conference

• Session 2
• Teachers and Trainers within quality approaches
• Introduction and objectives
• Mara Brugia
• TTnet Coordinator

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The Copenhagen process

• The Copenhagen process priority to quality
  assurance in VET and the training of teachers and
  trainers
• giving attention to the learning needs of
  teachers and trainers within all forms of
  vocational education and training
• promoting cooperation in quality assurance with
  particular focus on exchange of models and
  methods, as well as common criteria and
  principles for quality in vocational education
  and training

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TTnets activities in the field of quality

• a thematic workshop on the new skills required by
  VET teachers and trainers as part of quality
  approaches results available at
• http//www.trainingvillage.gr/etv/Projects_Network
  s/TTNet/
• an exploratory study on the role of teachers and
  trainers in quality approaches in the EU
  analysis of examples of good practice

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Copenhagen and Group A

• The Copenhagen priority of identifying the
  learning needs of teachers and trainers in a
  quality assurance framework will be addressed by
  the Expert Group on Improving the Education of
  teachers and trainers (Group A)

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The Commissions request to TTnet

• The Commission has asked TTnet to focus its
  activities in the field of quality on the
  following aspects
• a) the definition of common core criteria and
  methods for identifying the learning needs of VET
  teachers and trainers
• b) the identification of common quality criteria
  for the qualification of teachers and trainers in
  different learning environments, with particular
  reference to tutors in apprenticeship systems