Students' workplacement supervision - have a conversation
Teachers in vocational education (VE) often meet with workplace educators. These meetings carry a lot of potential, but often this potential remains untapped. A conversation tool for these meetings can open doors for the professionalisation of VE teachers and improve the meetings. This contributes to better supervision for students.
Aim
This project aims at designing a conversation tool for workplacement meetings in co-creation with students, workplace educators and VE teachers.
Results
The outcome of the project is a conversation tool that has been designed in co-creation. The conversation tool has been tested in practice and is relevant for a broad range of VE programmes.
Duration
01 March 2024 - 01 March 2025
Approach
We have chosen for a dual tracked approach. The first track focuses on designing in co-creation. The second track starts with building blocks from recent scientific research. Both tracks come together in a design process during consisting of three cycles during which we design, implement and adjust a conversation tool.
Impact on education
During the project we aim for knowledge exchange and professionalization because VE teachers, students and workplace educators will be working together based on research-based building blocks. At the end of the project the developed conversation tool can be implemented sustainably during workplacement supervision. As a result, the quality of supervision will improve.
"We have a lot to do when it comes to our relationship with the workplace. We have found our way in conversations with the organisations that offer our students a placement, but they are very much on-the-fly conversations"
Teacher MBO Amersfoort
