Closing Seminar part 2

 Closing seminars bring up usually good and bad feelings. The good feelings here is that we could again produce as a group terrific strategies about problem solving. We had to discuss and find solutions about these theme today:
ICT usage in the school > the group was pointing out a very practical issue. Nowadays there are so many server and platform that you need to log in that it would be better also for school to simply things. Teachers in this way they would have possibility to actually enjoy the use of computer for teaching purpose. The reality is that most of the teachers they don´t enjoy to us computers in classroom cause it´s time consuming. 
Competency based education and Process vs product > what is the dilemma here? the number of students that have to go throught to the institution, which actually pays a lot of  euros and still  how are we able to prove that students that are graduate they have the competences and skills?
Educational politics: cutting the working places and studying possibility all the time demotivate teachers. What teachers can do to try to save the system from inside?
We came out with these solutions: 

Cut backs in vocational schools and university of applied sciences level from the teachers’ point of view

PROBLEMS:

-          Quality of graduate students skills/knowhow is decreasing à cannot “fail” students no longer à faster pace in getting graduates, because the budget comes from graduate students

-          Contact lecture hours are being cut down

-          Teachers’ motivation deteriorating, because of the uncertainty

SOLUTIONS:

-          tuition fees! BUT not too expensive

o   in case a student prolongs his/her studies, the payment would be more expensive (penalty payment)

-          inclusiveness not always the best solution à grants for good students

-          teachers’ sponsorship – companies/organisations would became teacher’s sponsors

-          teachers’ training; in the area which would support their teaching, become more skilled teachers i.e. improving the product

-          online teaching, case studies or such outside contact hours

-          sell products! Educational export

 Tuition fees are really normal in many countries (including mine): but here it seems to be something extremely unfair. The reaction from the ivet students was really intresting: some of them came out with really intresting quetions and the discussion around it was exttremely inspiring. Pity that we had so few time.

Last but not the least part of our seminar today was with Blair.
He spoke about our future as teacher and the possibiluity that we could do research. The researching is something that always have been intresting me, but AGAIN I feel left so behind by my personal study path from the past. I don´t have contacts, I don´t have a theme and  for sure I don´t have financial support to do research.
But yes, I would like to research  A LOT. 

I will miss this group with all my heart, but in other hand a group has a life time and this was just one year. When we are in a terrific group like this one, one seems to be very short time.
It´s has been a fantastic journey. I am going to use this blog again in the future, starting reflecting in my work what I do and why I do that way. Why. Why. Why. 

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I would like to thank my family for supporting me during this time. Without them I wouldn´t have possibility to go back again in lifelong learning enviroment. I did really need and want this so badly. 

grazie <3