Encouraging lifelong learning – digital and bilingual

The digital transformation also kept the Continuing Training Division on its toes in 2019. SFIVET staff designed a new series of continuing training courses to draw greater attention to the use of digital technology in the classroom and further emphasise media-based teaching and learning. One noteworthy example is the CAS course in ‘Digital Learning’, which was successfully launched in autumn 2019.

SFIVET has been the federal government’s centre of excellence for bilingual instruction in vocational education and training since 2015. Among other things, SFIVET offers the CAS course in ‘Bilingual Instruction in Vocational Education and Training’, which enables vocational school teachers to plan, teach and evaluate bilingual content in their area of expertise. This CAS course includes job shadowing: attending classes given by someone who already teaches bilingual content at another Swiss vocational school in another language region. In 2019, SFIVET ran this course for a second time on the premises of the Ecole des Métiers de Fribourg.

In the summer of 2019, Swiss vocational schools were given the opportunity to assess the extent to which VET training content enables learners to acquire professional competences. Representatives of vocational schools, the cantons, the federal government and SFIVET were all involved in this project. SFIVET offers targeted continuing training courses for vocational schools that have not yet adapted their training content accordingly.

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