Hello
there!
My name is Henric Wendt and I work as a secondary teacher at the Vehicle
and Transport education in a small town named Laholm. This is my
school with the name Osbecksgymnasiet, where I work and practise. The school is
such a small school with less than 1000 students.
The picture
shows the head building entry and the schoolyard. The white building is for the
practical education programs.
My school educate in three vocational subjects: vehicle and transport, industrial and electrical
engineering.
Here you can see
the training local. When you enter the local it’s just like an ordinary garage
with cars, car lifts, tools, diagnostic instruments and other things that you
can find in a garage.
Here is a
learning situation where one of my students make a service on a Volvo. I try to
use real situations as long as I can just to get the students to understand how
it works in reality.
My teacher
colleague shows the students a Land Rover and teach them where the vehicle
is built and in which situations you can use that kind of car. We are in this
time teaching about 4 wheel drive so Land Rover is a perfect choice.
As you
can see we have got a good cooperation with Volvo. This car was donated by
Volvo for educational purposes, which we are very grateful for.
In first grade the students learn how to shift tires and how to balance them. In this
picture two of my students are practicing that operation.
Hi Henric! There are similarities with George's photo series and yours, and the comments. Your car was donated by Volvo, and George also has donators. I wonder if that is special for your field. Is it common for all VET schools in Sweden - the Vehicle programme- that you have donations like these?
ReplyDeleteHello Ingrid. Yes I can see that we have some similarities. I have been in contact with same other schools just becourse that question about donated cars. One of my contacts had a real good contact with Saab before they were sold out. I think that Volvo is very interested in donating, in order to increase the students´ interest in the model.
DeleteHello Henric, i wonder if you have any good tips how to get a good cooperation between the school and the workplaces?
ReplyDeleteHello Kristian. I hope you have a good time. My experience of cooperations is that many of the garages and workplaces has a very high interest in cooperating with the schools. My recomendation is that you talk with your manager so that you can get some time to visit all sort off workplaces in your area.
DeleteThere you will explain your vision and plan for them. Invite them to visit your school when the current students are there. In that moment you will receive the most valuable time with your contact and the best results for a successful cooperation.
Thanks Henric. If a company has a negative attitude from the beginning, how do you handle that?
DeleteThis is interesting. George, what are your experiences from cooperation - are there generally good cooperations between VET providers in Australia or to you see the same problems as these adressed above?
DeleteIf the company is negative from the beginning I use to explain why we need the cooperation. I suggest they can contact other companys who have students and check with them how they experience it.Sometimes it can yield results.
DeleteHello Henric! What do you do when you use the real repairs, is it private clients or the employees of the school leaves the cars to you for repairs?
ReplyDeleteHello Tommy. Sorry for a late answer.
DeleteWe use objects from private individuals and also colleagues cars.If they dare !!
Hello Henric,
DeleteCan you see any difference at the student when they work with a real customers car and your school car?
//Kristian
We are also working on the same method but with school vehicles such as transports and trucks. The difference I see Kristian is that it is more inspiring for the students when they get to do a real repair instead of an exercise but both procedures asset paths have to be enough to get everything.
DeleteYes there is another attitude and more respect for a real customers car. I try to make them understand that our material is just like the customers but there is a difference.
ReplyDeleteThat is the same for my students, i can see a big difference when they are practising reversing with the trailer on the yard and when i get them to a dead end so they have to reverse in the "real" world.
DeleteThey often say after they reversed in the live environment: it has never gone so well for me.
Hello Henric
ReplyDeleteIn one of the first photos you describe you talk about service. This is perhaps not only at school question? But last week I phoned a company and asked of a price for a service. The price was between 4-7.000 SEK. Then I asked what do they do (when the price is so huge). They said to me This is ha huge service, "we exchange filters, oil and do some control. I was confused becuase this is not complicated work and the price is still suprising? What is your oppinion about that?
It depends on what kind of service you are talking about and on what kind of car you have got. A normal bigger service costs between 4000-6000 SEK.
DeleteI agree that it is expensive with service.
Hi Henric! How many students are there "room for" at your programme, and how many do you have this year? Are there more/less applicants (not sure about that word though) this year that other years?
ReplyDeleteHello Vanja. We have room for 30 students and this year we have currently 20 students enrolled. Its less applicants this year due to a more competetive market with numerus private schools. Another reason is that statisticaly there are fewer pupils enrolling secondary school in these years nation wide.
DeleteHello Henric
ReplyDeleteIn Stenungsund I think the students got some money (3-5,000), wich they can get an old car wich they can work with during the education. Then they get more interested (I think) and also, if they do a good job, they got a car to the examination. What do you think of that idea?
Hello Olof. That was a good idea! The students want to be involved as much as possible. If we can use that car for the examination it should be very nice.
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