NEW APPROACHES TO VET

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NEW APPROACHES TO VET THROUGH SPORT agora
Thessaloniki organised by Cedefop 10 and 11 May
2004
Dutch VET on the move
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Introduction

• Bert Boetes
• Member of the board Royal Dutch Association of
  PhEd Teachers
• Project manager VET on the move a project of
  association of VET colleges and financed bij
  Ministry of Education
• Consultant Sports Education of the VET-college
  Landstede, Zwolle
• Consultant Dutch Sport Federation

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This Presentation

• VET in the Netherlands
• PhEd and sport in VET
• Projects
• State of the art
• Example Landstede College
• What to do

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Dutch VET

• 600 000 students
• 2/3 in VET
• 1/3 in Adult education
• 79 Colleges
• 52 ROCs Regional Education Centers
• 14 AOCs Agricultural Education Centers
• 13 specialized Colleges
• Larger ROCs gt 30 000 students

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Educational Reform

• 1996 Act on VET and AE
• Employers, unions and representatives of
  education were responsible for designing the
  Qualification structure
• Ministry of education only approves
• Colleges responsible for the curriculum
• Colleges merged to larger institutions with a
  complete offer in programmes all programmes for
  all students just around the corner

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VET in the new structure

• Most qualifications aimed on professional skills
  gtgtgt no competences in PhEd and sports
• Colleges responsible for curriculum
• Financial problems colleges
• Result PhEd and sports were skipped from the
  programmes

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What to do about it?

• 1997 questions in the Parliament
• Research on position PhEd in colleges
• Ministry of Education started projects to improve
  position PhEd
• Some colleges worked out good practice to show
  value of PhEd in programmes

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Establish a teachers network

• A teachers network of about 60 colleagues
  representing of 35 colleges
• Exchange of experiences
• Exchanges of programmes
• Meetings (4/year)
• Conferences, workshops, courses
• Electronic newsletter
• Website

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Improving the image

• Writing a Manifest
• Writing publications to show what we do
• Nomination of a college for the national Health
  award
• Presentations on management conferences
• Networking with powerful organizations

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The Manifest

• Reflection on attitude and behaviour (values)
• Health in general and in relation to work
• Key competences
• Competence based learning (learning by
  experience)

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State of the art

• New qualification structure (2006)
• Aim PhEd/sports competences a structural
  position
• Support Parliament, Minister of Education, board
  of association of VET colleges, sports
  associations (NOCNSF Erica Terpstra)
  educational associations
• No support of unions and employers

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Sport and education
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Plural competent in motor activities for work and
society
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Whats happening in the colleges

• Programmes in natural learning (competence-based
  learning)
• Programmes to train key-competences
• Orientation programmes in trend sports
• (streetdance, skating, squash, tai boo,
  climbing, archery, survival, golf)
• Fitness programmes related to the profession
• Ergonomics and prevention programmes
• Projects working together with sport clubs
• Day-activities (speed-skating,rowing,
  horse-riding) and week activities (skiing,
  survival, sailing)

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One example Landstede College

• Sport image of the college
• Sport part of the mission
• Sport part of strategic policy
• Sport tool in corporate identity
• Sport link with community

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Why Sports

• Research learned that sport attract students
• Similarities between sport and education
• Responsibility, teamwork, fair play, rules and
  regulations, endurance, discipline, learning to
  win and to lose, accept differences between
  people
• Sport can be used as a metaphor for society

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Contribution to Sport for All

• PhEd in curriculum of all programmes
• Extra-curricular sports (college volleyball)
• Sport venues together with clubs
• Club trainers teach in college programmes
• Practical period of sport students at clubs
• Support sport orientation programmes of primary
  education
• Fair Play projects on Primary schools
• Support of events at schools and community

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Contribution to Elite sports

• Partnership with Zwolle FC (Major League Soccer)
• Partnership with Landstede Volleyball and
  Landstede Basketball (both major league clubs)
• Facilities to combine elite sports and education
• Talent centres (soccer, handball, volleyball,
  basketball)
• Supporting Elite sport events (Davis Cup)

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Support Elite sport
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What are our plans in Holland

• PhEd and sports structural part of all
  qualifications in VET
• Necessary to involve employers and unions
• Information- and service point for support
• Website
• Strong network between colleges
• Cooperation with sport organizations to realize
  the national fit norm
• Create an international network on this subject

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Motion in VET for living, learning and working
in Europe

• Lets design a better track!