I am writing to tell you a little about the experience which I had here in Finland to participate in a major international event called Taitaja 2015, which I will split into two parts: the first part will talk about the skills competition and the second on the research seminar.
The skills competition is the largest event in the field of VET in Finland. It consist of three competitions for students, as well as seminars for educators and decision maker. Taitaja hosts also dozens of foreign competitors and hundreds of international guest every year.
The skills competition is the largest event in the field of VET in Finland. It consist of three competitions for students, as well as seminars for educators and decision maker. Taitaja hosts also dozens of foreign competitors and hundreds of international guest every year.
For the Finnish National Skills competition of 400-500 students compete for the medals in approximately 45 skills. The competition has been organized annually since 1988 and the mail goal of Taitaja is to enhance VET and improve its quality.
In the modality Taitaja Plus is a competition for VET students with special needs, the objetive of the competition is to rise awareness of vocational special needs education and to improve the employability of young professionals.
About Taitaja9 this is a competition for 9th graders in comprehensive school (14-15 year old), teams of three compete in tasks requiring various manual skills. The objetive of the competition is to support young people in their choice of profession and increase interest in vocational education and training.
This competitions to improve the quality in education and benefits all students, although increase collaboration between colleges and the professional word, give students opportunities to recognize their own strengths and to follow their individual study paths and increases the professional competence of teacher.
The Vocational Skills Competitions have a philosophy of equality. Finns have always considered important for all citizens to have the opportunity to receive an education, regardless of their place of residence, wealth, ethnic origin or sex.
Competitive activities among students are very important today because the world of work the students will have to compete for places in jobs. The globalizing word economy forces businesses to compete in terms of products and services.
Research Seminar
The research seminar was organized in cooperation with HAMK, TAMK and HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences. The purpose of the seminar was to bring together the Brazilian teachers participating the VET Teachers for future program me in Finland and the researchers, teachers and lecturers from the universities af applied sciences. The seminar offered a platform to share research ideas and ongoing research projects as well as to discuss on different topics in the theme Workshops.
The Seminar was opened for Mika Tammilehto, Director, Finnish Ministry of Education. He speach about technological and vocational skills is demanded in the labor and how can the comprehensive school and vocational education and training VET prepare students for this job.
After that, Kirski Lonka professor of University of Helsinki explain about the skills needed in the word of work should be taught starting from comprehensive school. Kirski focus your speech about the importance the work-life skills and innovation for the students in future.
Seija Mahlamaki-Kultanen, director, Häme University of Applied Science, Vocational Teacher Training speech about the results for Finland of 20 years of Eu-cooperation and where will focus be for the next 20 years. She cited the Finish basic values have favored the importance of education, the national consensus over educational policy and Filand was an early adopter of the program and project-based development work. This actions had contributed for the success in HAMK.
My Colleagues, Sheylla and Luiz of program VET teacher for future, speech about education in Brazil. the beginning they presentation about the numbers, dates about education and model of education in Brazil. After that, they speech a bit about challenge for education in future. At the end Luiz speech about the Word Skills which will realized in Brazil in August of 2015.
In synthesis, this event gave me a different experience in the area of education that was participating as a listener abilities fair where I could see the importance for students to develop real activities within companies such as internships and training. In this event students competed with each other to develop the same activities a predetermined time and were evaluated by the companies enabling them a different work experience and related to the globalized world is the competition for products and services designed with quality and within the pressure real hesitate to the world of work. This type of event makes us reflect on the need to think of changes for the future that could help transform the most motivating vocational education to our students, as well as the most prepared students to face this world of work.
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