Unit 5.4 Methodology

Now that you know what skills you are looking for in your VET students, you can start the interviews with possible mobility participants. Below you can find a pre-designed document that you can use for your interviews.

Please download the document and add all the important details that you want to find out about your applicants. You can also always make changes within the document, as it is designed to help you manage the interviews.

Once you found a suitable applicant and a company that fits the overall wishes of the applicant, you will have to initiate a meeting with both the company and the VET student.

Look at the document below and alter it so that it fits your specific meeting. You can then save the document or print it out and use it during the meeting. Idealy, you will have already spoken to both parties and have figured out a basic understanding of both parties' wishes, to ensure that the meeting will not take too long.

Make sure to properly introduce both parties and allow some smalltalk before the actual meeting starts. Aftre all, this is the first time, the VET student meets the people he or she will be working with for the duration of the mobility.

After the mobility, make sure to collect some feedback from the participant and from the company. This will make the next mobilities easier for you to plan.

Download the feedback forms. you can alter both forms and add the details that you want feedback about. Let both parties write coherent thoughts (at least bullet points) about what should stay the same and what should be changed next time. Let them address parts of the mobility that your felt unsure about but also give them space to add any other details that they found important.

Alternative: If you want to use a more digitalized version of feedback forms, you can also create a free account on websites like www.questionstar.com

Before you start to plan your mobilities, you need to create a timeline for the whole project.

Your timeline simply helps you keep an overview over the points you have to do to make the mobility work. Generally, the timeline can have any form you feel comfortable with. You could, for example, use online tools or special apps like office timeline.

Another form of timeline you could use is this excel file. You can download the file and add or delete to-dos as well as add dates to each to-do.

How to use the excel file:

The first excel sheet contains all your information. Add your to-dos to the column milestones, enter your due dates into the column dates and edit the looks of your timeline with the first column named position.

The second excel sheet contains the timeline itself. You can scroll through your timeline or print it out to keep track of what still needs to be done.

In this exercise you will prepare your student interculturally and linguistically for the mobility.

Have a look at chapter 5.1 again. In part 5 you can find many different possibilities that prepare the students for their mobilities.

exercise: Think about what you want the students to know before the mobility starts. Prepare a list for your students where they can choose from the different options to acchieve those goals. You can use the template by writing down the competencies you wish your students to aquire and adding the possible options on how to aquire them at the bullet points.