Below are some of the notes I took during our visit:
- Education is future
- Education is local
- 40 training centers in Germany plus International programs
- 2000+ new students/apprentices per year
- ~7000 total students/apprentices
- 47,000 applicants per year
- Business, technical, and dual study programs
- Dual education system
- Handlungskompetenz - Employees highly qualified, highly employable, highly productive, future oriented
- Ages 16 - 25 either after 10th grade, 13rh grade, or university
- Practical job training, employed by company (75%)
- Theory provided by state - vocational school (25%)
- Everything taught in both German and English
- Smart System - IT driven technologies
- Very project and process oriented learning
- Project presentations as learning results
- Knowledge management and networking
- Self dependent web based comprehensive learning
- Continual evaluation
- Students use Fujitsu laptops which they purchase on their own. Used for school projects
- Every Friday have a feedback round to share how and what they learned that week
- Collaborative work.
- Have a lottery each week for seating.
- Students eventually create a program for seating.
- Self dependent students
- Students are ready to learn. They want to be there. They self reflect
- Students are paid to go to school and are held accountable for their work.
- They can really focus in their classes instead of work, etc. absenteeism is not an issue.
- Take turns making notes.
- Teachers are more facilitators or coaches
- Practical applications presentation by students:
- Filling machine- creating a system that will fill a cup with water
- Must go through the complete process
- Planning, execution, reflection, quality control, programming
- Students that presented had not used the machine, but knew the processes and application of each station
- Programming, networking, team work work
- Activities are divided into modules or stations
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