Teacher Qualification in Hangzhou

The SGAVE project is changing and so are its teachers. We have new partner schools and of course some teachers have changed jobs or employers. So in 2018 there were again many new teachers in the project, which prompted us to organize a teacher training.
This year’s teacher training program was the first part of a certification program that consists of three parts and is designed to develop our teachers from the “SGAVE Qualified Teacher” to the “SGAVE Master Teacher”. In the foreground of the course were the following learning contents:

• Comparison of VET systems in Germany and China
• Dual system, training regulations, training framework, framework curriculum
• Steps to develop a business and work process oriented curriculum
• Structure and structure of learning field descriptions, target descriptions
• From the framework curriculum to the school curriculum to the learning situations
• Development and planning of a lesson based on the SGAVE curriculum
• Criteria for the evaluation of action-oriented teaching

Our new teachers, together with their instructor Prof. Bierschenk, worked through these topics and finally presented them in a final exam. It was a special concern of ours that the true essence of German vocational training be recognized and experienced. How are framework curricula in Germany transferred from vocational schools to applicable learning situations? How can the teachers, here in China, transfer the existing information from the SGAVE project documents and the SGAVE curriculum into their daily work and use them sensibly? What information is available and what needs to be prepared in order to be able to actually carry out action-oriented lessons based on the German model? We raised all these questions and gave the answers.
Finally, all participants passed the course. The results speak for themselves. As part of the course we have developed teaching materials for different learning situations that are truly impressive. This is also the motivation for the next parts, which will soon be available and give rise to further action. We will start a contest that will demonstrate the potential of our teachers and demonstrate the specificity of how we understand education.
The next teacher training is coming. We are already working on the next parts and are already looking forward to the next step together with our SGAVE teachers and experts from Germany.