Revised Taxonomy of Learning Domains and its Implication in TVET

Date: May 5, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentation

Teaching Approaches to KSA for Effective Learning
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
- 5 Qualities that 21st Century Teachers Must Have (Video)
Revised Taxonomy of Learning Domain and its Implication in TVET
by Dr. Md. Shah Alam Majumder

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Background

One of the current focus of CPSC is sustainable development in CPSC training programs. This development is possible on transformative change in the training delivery process. What does “transformative change” mean in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

On the other hand, due to the current COVID -19 situation in Manila, CPSC has suspended its operations and allowed work from home. Therefore it is important to introduce WEBINAR in CPSC and conduct training programs online.

A webinar is an online seminar that turns a presentation into a real-time conversation from anywhere in the world. Webinars allow large groups of participants to engage in online discussions or training events and share audio, documents or slides – even when they’re not in the same place as the meeting host or in the same room where the event or presentation is taking place.

The fourth / fifth proposed webinar topic is Revised Taxonomy of Learning Domains and its Implication in TVET. Bloom's Taxonomy is a good heuristic for teachers to understand the varying levels of cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domain that teachers have as outcomes for students. It also helps with assessments in terms of matching assessment items to the level of learning objectives.

Bloom's taxonomy serves as the backbone of many teaching philosophies, in particular, those that lean more towards skills rather than content. These educators view content as a vessel for teaching skills. The emphasis on higher-order thinking inherent in such philosophies is based on the top levels of the taxonomy including analysis, evaluation, synthesis and creation. Bloom's taxonomy can be used as a teaching tool to help balance assessment and evaluative questions in class, assignments and texts to ensure all orders of thinking are exercised in students' learning, including aspects of information searching.

Action verb describes what someone or something is doing or will do and animates a sentence either physically or mentally and use for defining and Writing Learning Objectives / Outcome, determining levels of educational setting and very important for developing competency Standard and the curriculum.

Focus

This webinar on “Revised Taxonomy of Learning Domains and its Implication in TVET” aims to provide an online training for CPSC member country’s participants; Based on an analysis of the Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) revision of Bloom's original 1956 taxonomy namely Anderson's revised and restructured Bloom’s Taxonomy that omits several points within the cognitive dimension and changed taxonomy words from nouns to verbs. Again Philip T. Beckwith, formulate a new version of Taxonomy for higher order cognitive thinking skills in 2018. These new version of taxonomy and proper use of corresponding action verbs are very important in educational settings like curriculum development, writing goal and objective and setting questions for students assessment. These essential pedagogy aspect needs to be share with TVET teachers, trainers, educators and curriculum developer through this webinar so that it can be applied in respective development and practice arena of TVET.

Objectives

To offer online training programs for CPSC member countries participants without any interruption
To Interpret the revised and restructured taxonomy of learning domain
To identify the level wise appropriate action verbs of Knowledge, Skills and Attitude
To apply the acquired knowledge of learning domain in differentiate educational aspects of TVET

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

Digital Innovation in TVET Sector to Enhance NVQS

Date: May 4, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentations

Introduction to National Vocational Qualification System (NVQS)
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
Digital Innovation in TVET Sector to Enhance NVQS
by Abdul Ghani Rajput
Nothing Will Change Unless You Change (Video)

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Background and Focus

To produce credible and desired TVET graduates who can contribute to the country’s economic development. It is important to strengthen the relevance and responsiveness of Vocational Qualification Framework (VQFs) programs to the needs of industry. Further it will produce universal citizens for global harmony and prosperity.

In last one decade, the use of technology is increasing day by day and this link is still missing in TVET. Digital skills are driving competitiveness in today’s economy and countries below the digital divide must struggle to bring their populations to a level where they can catch up and then, keep up. What are the implications of digitization to TVET? If there is any system that will truly benefit from the digital economy, it is TVET. Students who go to TVET do not see degrees as more important than the skills they need to get jobs. Unless they have digital skills they will only get jobs as nannies, security guards or drivers of these highly paid digital geeks.

The introduction of national vocational qualification frameworks (NVQFs), including frameworks specifically for the vocational sector, are policy initiatives that have far reaching implications for the management and delivery of education and training. Despite the caution called for by researchers and the challenging reality of implementation in both developed and developing countries, NVQFs continue to be included in national reform programs in many regions of the Asia Pacific region. A particular concern for many countries is improving the relationship between education and training system in one hand and labour markets on the other hand. Increasingly, qualification frameworks have been seen as a useful policy tool to achieve other goals of TVET system.

The popularity of national vocational qualification framework has grown dramatically in last 10 years. Now TVET providers are more focusing on how to further enhance the NVQF system by using digital technologies. The digital applications may be used to enhance and strengthening the VQFs system in order to increase socio economic condition of the country. For example, training needs analysis (TNA) process of vocational qualification can be automated by using different digital applications. Therefore digital applications can be used to improve institutional administration and instruction by moving courses online as an example, so interested individuals can take them while at work or at home.

To share the digital innovation applications and concept, Colombo Plan Staff College Manila is going to organize a webinar on “Digital Innovation in TVET sector to Enhance NVQF”. This webinar will be dedicated to CPSC member countries TVET policy maker, managers, instructors, and practitioners to enhance the NVQFs by adopting latest digital technologies. The topics for discussion in this webinar will focus on practical digital applications such as electronic TVET institute management system, e-feedback system including TNA, curriculum development Extractor (CuDevEx), Teaching workload management system, digital NVQF registry system and digitized M&E system etc. The outcome will be aligned different interpretations and expectations of digital innovation concept from the various stakeholders’ perspectives.

Objectives

To explain the concept digital TVET system to enhance VQFs
To share the digital applications for NVQF including registry system
To identify importance online Curriculum Information Document system

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

Test Items Development Techniques for TVET Teachers

Date: Apr 27, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentation

Quality Assurance in Educational Programs through Assessment and Evaluation
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
Test Items Development Techniques for TVET Teachers
by Engr. Sanyog Bhattarai

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Background and Focus

Given the current rapidly-evolving situation with COVID-19, CPSC likes to take this opportunity to reassure that it will continue to deliver programs through the WEBINAR to the valued TVET stakeholders. As a Face-to-Face training is not possible, on-line training is the best solution which is also cost effective and time saving.

This concept paper is prepared for the next webinar topic “Test Items Development Techniques for TVET teachers”. At present, all reputable assessments carried out in TVET systems are competence-based assessment. Assessments are only relevant for the workplace if it has consider prevalent knowledge, abilities and skills which are required in work-based situations.

Assessment provides information that can help improve students’ learning and help teachers in teaching. The role of classroom assessment is to improve students’ learning and teachers’ teaching in order to ensure that students reach their individual potential. Teachers, therefore, generally understand that assessment is integral to teaching. Thus, TVET teachers need to know how to develop test items, administer tests, assign grades as per the results of tests, and report the outcomes of the tests to the concerned authority. Teachers should be able to integrate assessment and teaching to make the teaching process more interesting and to enhance the students’ learning outcome. Teachers need to create and provide opportunities for all students in which students can progress at their own pace and remedial measures need to apply where necessary. After testing a constructive feedback should be given to students based on the ability of individual students to refer to the standard criteria rather than student achievement.

Thus, there are different test items need to be developed by a TVET teacher in order to test students achievements and diagnose learning problems. Those test items are based on Skills, Knowledge, and Attitudes (Soft Skills) which are taught to the students and test is conducted only after students have adequately practiced the skills. Test items need to be developed differently for each domain of learning and there are specific process of developing each test item.

Thus, CPSC is looking forward to this webinar on “Test Items Development Techniques for TVET Teachers” and meet all the CPSC member countries participants & discuss about it. It is hoped that this experience will enable us to think and act differently on development of test items, administrating, and produce tests results in TVET institutions.

Objectives

At the end of the webinar, the participants are expected to:

Bring CPSC member countries participants in one online platform
Understand the TVET Assessment System
Be familiar with the types of test items
Internalize the process of development of each test item
Formulate strategies on adopting test items development process

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

Quality Management System of TVET Institute through APACC Accreditation

Date: Apr 27, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentation

Quality Management System (QMS) Through APACC Accreditation and Certification of TVET Institutions
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
- APACC 7 Criteria (Video)

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Background and Focus

The Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions in the 21st century play a significant role in the social and economic transformation of society. Critical to that role is a quality management system that assures quality throughout the input, process and output sequence, while providing feedback for continuous improvement to meet the changing needs of its customers. This will maximize the extent to which graduates from TVET institutions will meet the dynamic needs of stakeholders, including students, employers and the nation at large.

Quality can be defined in many different ways. It can mean excellence, zero defects, uniform quality, satisfying customer needs or operational improvement. Quality is always bound to satisfying customer needs. Quality is about making organizations perform for their stakeholders – from improving products, services, systems and processes, to making sure that the whole organization is fit and effective.

A quality management system (QMS) is a formalized system that documents processes, procedures, and responsibilities for achieving quality policies and objectives. QMS helps coordinate and direct an organization’s activities to meet customer and regulatory requirements and improve its effectiveness and efficiency on a continuous basis. Good quality management systems can enhance the organization’s brand and reputation, protect it against risks, increase its efficiency, boost its profits and position it to keep on growing.

Accreditation, as one of the three primary modes of quality assurance, is often considered a step towards establishing a culture of quality – sustained and maintained by defining objectives, developing capacity to achieve them and evaluating whether they are achieved or not. Being a gatekeeper of quality at its threshold, accreditation determines the adequacy of human, physical, and information resources, reinforces results-based approach to evaluation, and provides a firm foundation for its institutions or programs.

The Asia Pacific Accreditation and Certification Commission (APACC) is a regional accreditation and certification body established through the Seoul Declaration 2004, with the Colombo Plan Staff College (CPSC) as the lead organization. It aims to provide international accreditation and certification services towards quality management system of TVET institutions. Its goal is to improve the quality of TVET institutions to produce competent and highly skilled workforce.

In its continuous efforts to widen the reach and strengthen human resources within and outside Asia Pacific region, CPSC is organizing this webinar to enhance participants’ understanding of quality management systems, accreditation as a tool for improving the quality of TVET institutions, and overview of APACC accreditation system.

Objectives

At the end of the webinar, the participants are expected to:

Understand concepts and principles of QMS
Be aware of the overview of APACC accreditation system

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

Blue Ocean Strategy for TVET Institute Management

Date: Apr 24, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentation

Application of Blue Ocean Strategy in TVET Management
by Dr. Vijay Patil
- Introduction to Blue Ocean Strategy (Video)

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Background and Focus

CPSC is committed to developing and enhancing the technician education systems of its member countries through the quality education and training in TVET. However, the whole world is nowadays facing an acute pressure due to COVID -19 issue. CPSC therefore wish to continue its efforts towards its commitment as stated above and accordingly take this opportunity to deliver its training program through online mode viz. WEBINAR for the benefits of its stakeholders.

A webinar is an engaging online event where a speaker, or small group of speakers, deliver a presentation to a large audience who participate interactively through a real-time conversation by submitting and responding questions, and using other available interactive tools. Thus, a webinar is a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web using video conferencing software. A key feature of a Webinar is its interactive elements i.e. The ability to give, receive and discuss information in real-time.

The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector aims to provide systematic and orderly transmission of knowledge, skills and values to develop a workforce that is able to enhance productivity and sustain competitiveness in the global economy. TVET is expected to play two crucial roles of providing training opportunities and providing the skilled manpower for sustainable development. Thus, there is the necessity of improvement in three main issues relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of TVET system. TVET qualifications do not solely guarantee economic freedom. Therefore, it is required to devise certain strategies which could lessen the cut throat competition and thereby keep TVET sector attractive, productive as well as relevant. Therefore, there is a need of some strategy like value innovation which can be a choice between differentiation and low cost that pursue differentiation and low cost simultaneously. It is always better the organizations to redefine the problem, with the intellectual sophistication and technological richness of the innovations. The logic called value innovation is a technique that places equal emphasis on value and innovation and defies one of the most commonly accepted dogmas of competition-based strategy: the value-cost trade-off and is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. Blue Ocean Strategy is the recent concept of intelligent strategic evolution to visualize the ideas and manage the organization and is about creating uncontested market space, making the rivals irrelevant rather than competing with them and conveying the infinite possibilities for profitable growth. Strategic planning is necessary to achieve organizational success based on its internal and external dynamics to develop an edge over the competitors. In this context, this Webinar on the topic, “Application of Blue Ocean Strategy for TVET Management” has been planned for the TVET teachers of all member countries to discusses some of the basic concepts, principles and to explore the approaches for building and developing an effective and sustainable framework for managing a TVET institute.

Objectives

To Comprehend the concept, principles and components of Blue Ocean Strategy.
To Understand the application of Blue Ocean Strategy in TVET management.
To analyze four actions framework of Blue Ocean Strategy.

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

Teacher to Educational Leader

Date: Apr 23, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentations

Who is Competitive TVET Leader
Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
Teachers to Educational Leader
Dr. N. Asokan

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Background and Focus

The next webinar topic is Teacher to Educational Leader. As Technical Education and Vocational Training has globally been recognized as the most effective tool for increasing employment and poverty reduction.

Though teaching has traditionally been a career in which year one looks much the same as year thirty, I’m pleased to see that this is starting to change. Teachers in years one, five and twenty bring different strengths to the table, and also have different professional growth needs. In their first years of full-time teaching, our associate teachers often produce results similar to their more experienced peers. Experienced teachers to serve in teacher-leader roles. Like all professionals, teachers’ skills mature over time, and our goals and priorities shift too, to short-term career as an educator/ educationist, to mid-term career as a head of an educational institution, to long-term career as member of educational policy making bodies. Educational leadership at every level, who strive to create positive change in educational policy and processes. Educational leadership involves working with and guiding teachers toward improving educational processes in Technical and Vocational Education and Training institutions.

Careers today are roughly around forty years long. And it is important to internalize that it is a marathon, not a sprint. A person’s career can broadly be split into two halves, the first half and the second half. The length of the two halves is not important and does not have to be mathematically equal. We have observed many people through the journey of their careers, those who successes, less successful, looked like they had a good start but did not achieve their potential, they had a bad start but seemed to overachieve, had twists and turns, had a more steady, straight path. We can conclude that the more significant career achievements are often in the second half of the career and most people succeeded in the first halves of their career, very few in the second.

There are misconceptions that if we work hard and spend years at work, then we are growing our skills, knowledge and capabilities, if we succeed in the first half of our career, we will automatically succeed in the second half of our career. Time spent at work is not equal to experience.

As we get to senior levels, two things change: first, the complexity of the problems /issues we deal with, and second the number/quantity/breadth of the issues. At a senior level, the number of people who want your time is far greater than you have, the number of things that you need attention is far greater than the number you handled earlier and the number of simultaneous things you have to manage is far greater than what you have ever done. The breadth is such that one day in the morning, you could be discussing the long-term strategic plan and in the afternoon the same day, you might have to deal with next week’s issue.

Your career will grow only as much as you are able to grow as an individual and as a professional. If you manage to grow your skills, knowledge, decision making ability, judgement, influence on others, communication skills etc., then you will experience career growth. Career growth is directly proportional to and is a function of real individual growth. If you stop pushing yourself at any stage, your career growth also comes to a screeching halt.

Technical and Vocational Education & Training is a complex, dialectical and exciting opportunity which can potentially transform society for the better. Thus governments, educators and policy makers alike must ask the questions about how we can prepare our teachers to lead the present and future TVET to thrive in this transforming world.

Teachers determine the success of every TVET institution. This requires the right framework conditions under which each individual can and may contribute his or her skills and services in the sense of agreed – more qualitative and quantitative – results. This was valid at all times and becomes even more important in the post pandemic period.

Focus

This Webinar on Teacher to Educational Leader aims to provide an online training platform for CPSC member country’s participants; to understand the dynamics of different verticals of TVET education system, and TVET teachers learn to develop as administrator, manager and leader. Furthermore, this webinar will discuss how to write the mission statements for TVET institutions, qualities to be developed by TVET teachers in the VUCA world and /or post pandemic period.

Objectives

To offer online training programs for CPSC member countries participants without any interruption
To understand the development of right career path of teachers in TVET
To develop the qualities of teachers to play the role of administrator, manager and leader of TVET institutions.

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

ICT Application in Teaching and Learning

Date: Apr 22, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentations

Strengthening TVET System Through ICT
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
- ICT in Education (Video)
ICT Application in Teaching and Learning
by Prof. Dr. G. Kulanthaivel

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Background and Focus

The Colombo Plan Staff College (CPSC), Philippines is an Inter-governmental International Organization for Human Resources Development. The whole world is nowadays facing an acute pressure due to COVID -19 issue. CPSC therefore wish to continue its efforts towards its commitment of quality education and training, and accordingly take this opportunity to deliver its training program through online mode viz. WEBINAR for the benefits of its stakeholders.

The development of new broadband communication services, convergence of telecommunication with computers and recent developments in the field of communication protocol have fostered challenges as well as offerings in the wide-ranging use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support the creation of dynamic and interactive teaching and learning environment. The world has witnessed a phenomenal growth in communication technology, computer network and information technology. Education around the world is experiencing major paradigm shifts in educational practices under the umbrella of ICT enabled learning environment.

Numerous technological innovations have inspired the development of new teaching and learning systems and contextualizing content. These add value to the learning environment and render smooth transition to a knowledge-based society. There is at least one generation gap between the Learners and the Teachers! It is also important to recognize that the 21st century learners are indeed very different from what we were as students. Today’s school-age generation knows more about technology than do their teachers. Young kids get bored if they are doing only one function at a time; they need multiple stimuli. For example, new generation of learners watch their computer screens, listen to music through headphones, and carry on conversation; all at the same time. Today’s learners have short attention spans, and have the attitude of take-it-all-at-once. They experience a technologically-saturated childhood. Unlike adults, they are not surprised by new technology -- they simply integrate it into their lives. They want and expect to collaborate with their teachers (and bosses), not take orders from them.

The growth of ICTs, the acknowledgement of their ease of use, the power and diversity of information transfer allow teachers and students to have access to a world beyond the classroom and create their own learner-centred environment for maximum learning outcome. Mastering ICT skills and their application to improve teaching and learning provide teachers the tools to perform their role as creators of pedagogical environments. Learners, on the other hand, take part in the sharing of needed learning space to acquire collaborative learning principles, learning independence and to enhance critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving skills. Worldwide research has shown that ICT can lead to an improved student learning and better teaching methods. Application of ICT tools in teaching and learning process has changed the total scenario of teaching and learning process. Teaching and learning process s of this is not now limited within the classrooms boundaries. ICTs are making major differences in the teaching approaches and ways students are learning.

In this context, this webinar has been planned for the teachers of all CPSC member countries to discuss on ICT applications in Teaching and Learning Process.

Objectives

To offer online training seminar for teachers of CPSC member countries
To familiarize the best practices of the use of ICT for Teaching and Learning
To comprehend the hardware and software requirements for Technology based Learning environment
To integrate the innovative ICT practices for teaching and learning

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

Workforce Development through Credible CBT Assessment

Date: Apr 20, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentations

Workforce Development through Credible Assessment
Engr. Abdul Ghani Rajput
Competency Based Training and Assessment
Mr. Muhammad Naeem Akhtar

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Background and Focus

TVET system have always benefited from technological advances to explore new research areas and improve the teaching learning process. Over recent years, there has been an increased interest in incorporating competencies into TVET curriculum to insure the teaching meets industry required needs. A competency based training focuses on the outcomes of learning by defining goals and processes to achieve them. It contributes to student’s career readiness since the main goal is to let students progress at their own pace and measure their achievement against a standard of performance.

Assessment is the process of collecting evidence and making judgments on whether competency has been achieved. The purpose of assessment is to confirm that an individual can perform the standard expected in the workplace, as expressed in the relevant endorsed industry or enterprise competency standards. Assessments through this course will require participants to complete a variety of written work, oral questions, practical demonstrations and assignment/portfolio presentations.

Competency Based Assessment is an important element of the competency-based training system. It states that “the competency based training system will be supported by the development of training packs comprising of a set of industry-based competency standards, assessment guidelines and eventually, qualification specification for each sector. NVQs assessments are conducted to assess candidate’s skills, knowledge and attitudes against set industry standards through various modes such as demonstrations, simulations, presentations, assignments, projects, creations, and scenarios.

The scope of CBT assessment system includes provision of opportunities for individuals coming from multiple learning pathways i.e. formal, non-formal and informal entries that lead to acquire certificate of full/ complete “National Vocational Qualification” or “Record of Achievements” for single/ multiple competency standards. It also assess the recognition of prior learning as legitimate pathways of assessment for many individuals whose skills have not yet been recognized and certified to acquire national vocational qualification.

In this connection, CPSC is going to organize a webinar on Workforce Development through Credible CBT Assessment. This webinar will be dedicated to CPSC member countries TVET Practitioners to develop and implement the Competency Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) for pilots, including Evidence Based Training (EBT). The topics for discussion in this webinar will focus on the main aspects of CBTA development, implementation and on the evaluation of the available methodologies and practices. The outcome will be aligned the different interpretations and expectations of CBA concept from the various stakeholders’ perspectives

Objectives

To explain the concept and elements of Competency Based Assessment
To share the competency based assessment process and its registry system
To identify importance of Moderation of CB Assessment

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

Lesson Plan Development for TVET Teachers

Date: Apr 15, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentations

Quality TVET and Instructional Planning
Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
- This is the 21st Century (Video)
Lesson Plan Development for TVET Teachers
Dr. Vijay Patil

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Background and Focus

There are many sayings or aphorisms in education, great words of wisdom, and sincere advice from countless sources. It is needless to say that the best and effective teachers are good planners and thinkers. The success of professional teachers doesn't "just happen." The road to success for teachers requires commitment and practice, especially of those skills involved in planning lessons and learning activities, and in managing classroom behavior. Planning lessons, though its implementation being a long-time activity, is a fundamental skill all teachers must develop and improve consistently and fall under the core skills of a teacher.

For a TVET System to be able to play its role effectively, it is important to ensure that there exits an enabling and TVET friendly environment that can be achieved by putting in place harmonized teaching and learning environment through appropriate instructional design and appropriate teaching strategy. Therefore, creating a lesson plan is an important aspect of instructional design. A lesson is an organized set of activities designed to present one manageable sized piece of an academic course content and is different than the lecture. The purpose of a lesson plan is really quite simple; it is to communicate. The lesson plan is to guide TVET teacher in organizing learning material and himself for the purpose of helping students to achieve intended learning outcomes.

Thus, a key principle in creating a lesson plan is specificity. Lesson plans allow the TVET teachers to create and articulate learning objectives, organize and deliver course content, and plan and prepare learning activities and materials. It also outlines the type of informal or formal assessment methods, that TVET faculty will use in their classrooms. It is also an effective instrument to implement the TVET curriculum for achieving specific educational goals and objectives and check whether the desired outcomes are clear and specific in behavioral and observable terms with focus on products or ends.

In this context, this Webinar on the topic, “Lesson Plan Development for TVET teachers” has been planned for the TVET teachers of all member countries to discusses some of the basic concepts, principles and to explore the approaches for building and developing an effective lesson plan.

Objectives

To offer online training seminar for TVET teachers of CPSC member countries.
To understand the importance of the concept of lesson plan development in TVET.
To share the components/elements of lesson plan.
To develop a lesson plan for the given content of TVET.

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

DACUM Process

Date: Apr 13, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentations

Curriculum for 21st Century Skills
Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
DACUM Process
Engr. Sanyog Bhattarai

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Background and Focus

The second proposed webinar topic by CPSC is DACUM Process. As Technical Education and Vocational Training (TVET) has globally been recognized as most effective tool for increasing employment and poverty reduction. The success of TVET education largely depends upon the quality of education and one of the pillar of quality education is curricula. Thus, it is vital for TVET educators to understand the importance, relevancy, and development process of curricula. One of the most important stage in development of curricula is the DACUM. It’s a highly effective, quick, and low cost method to conduct a job, occupational, process, and functional analysis. In TVET high quality education and training programs are needed to produce skilled workers. A job analysis is the best way to gather this information.

DACUM has been successfully used to identify skills and related knowledge that a worker needs to perform a job. DACUM has been used extensively in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector all over the world to develop technical curriculum. DACUM is used in the occupational analysis phase, after DACUM other stages like validation workshop, competency formation, task analysis, and development of training curriculum follows.

In TVET sector, we have been discussing on how to integrate greening TVET, 21st century skills, and technopreneurship components in curricula. DACUM process will help in understand the integration process. In addition to curriculum development, outcome of DACUM can be used for development competency standards, development of job description, determine training needs, designing performance evaluation, for new supervisors/managers’ to understand what their employees do on the job.

Thus, CPSC is looking forward to this webinar on “DACUM Process” and meet all the CPSC member countries participants & discuss about it. It is hoped that this experience will enable us to think and act differently on development of curricula and integration of different components in a curriculum.

Objectives

Bring CPSC member countries participants in one online platform
Understand the DACUM process
Describe the process of DACUM
Internalize the uses of DACUM
Formulate strategies on using DACUM process in TVET

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

Readiness of TVET Towards IR 4.0

Date: Apr 6, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentations

Ushering TVET to Address the Challenges of Industrial Revolution 4.0
Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
Impact of FIRe on TVET in Asia: Challenges and Prospects
Engr. Abdul Ghani Rajput

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Background and Focus

One of the current focus of CPSC is to sustainable development in CPSC training programs. This development is possible on transformative change in training delivery process. What does “transformative change” mean in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

On the other hand, due to the current COVID -19 situation in Manila, CPSC has suspended its operations and allow work from home. Therefore it is important to introduce WEBINAR in CPSC and conduct training programs online.

The first proposed webinar topic is Readiness of TVET towards IR4.0. As Technical Education and Vocational Training has globally been recognized as most effective tool for increasing employment and poverty reduction. The shortage of skilled worker for the international and local industry is increase day by day and one of the reasons is introduction of Industrial Revolution 4.0 elements in workplace environment.

The revolution brings new exciting opportunities and solutions to global challenges such as automation of industrialization. It will also produce new jobs that have yet to be invented. The critical challenge for skills development is serious skills mismatches despite growing investments in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Thus governments, educators and policy maker alike must ask the questions about how they can prepare present and future TVET to thrive in this transforming world. Technical and Vocational Education & Training in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (TVET 4.0) is a complex, dialectical and exciting opportunity which can potentially transform society for the better. The fourth industrial revolution is powered by artificial intelligence and it will transform the workplace from tasks based characteristics to the human centered characteristics. Because of the convergence of man and machine, it will reduce the subject distance between humanities and social science as well as science and technology. This will necessarily require much more interdisciplinary teaching, research and innovation in TVET. Therefore TVET stakeholders in Asia Pacific region have to set new initiatives and make efforts to cultivate holistic, entrepreneurial and balanced graduates to be globally competitive and meet the needs of Industry 4.0.

Objectives

Offer online training programs for CPSC member countries participants without any interruption;
understand the dynamics of IR 4.0 and its disruption in TVET;
identify the components of TVET to address IR 4.0.

Facilities Required

To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:

Minimum 2Mbps Broadband Internet
Desktop/Laptop Computer or Mobile Device with Earphones and Mic

Chrome Browser or any HTML5 Compliant Browser
Google Account (Gmail) for Hangouts Meet

Revised Taxonomy of Learning Domains and its Implication in TVET

Digital Innovation in TVET Sector to Enhance NVQS

Test Items Development Techniques for TVET Teachers

Quality Management System of TVET Institute through APACC Accreditation

Blue Ocean Strategy for TVET Institute Management

Teacher to Educational Leader

ICT Application in Teaching and Learning

Workforce Development through Credible CBT Assessment

Lesson Plan Development for TVET Teachers

DACUM Process

Readiness of TVET Towards IR 4.0

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