Project
advances
I spoke to
my boss to find out his opinion about the network project, and he accepted and authorized
me to go on, the next step was to talk to Norah Ossa, the person in charge of
contact the companies for the SENA apprentices, she informed that the person
who was in charge of that follow up with students was Edith Torres and that she
just visited the companies when something wrong was going on. Norah also
comment that it would be a great idea, although in her opinion the technical
part was Ok but the most common complaint from the companies was the lack of
compromise of SENA students, and the high dropout rate among our apprentices.
Simultaneously
I contacted some of my ex students who are working in the companies in this
moment, I spoke to three of them and all of them showed enthusiasm and
expressed their will to help with the project, one of them works in the
aqueduct and sewage system company of Bogota, and she even told that I could go
Now if I wanted.
Now that I
have the contact I want to prepare a well-structured questionnaire for students
and for the company bosses, and for that I want the help of my coworkers in my
center.
1 comentario:
Sounds good!
I find it very important that even teachers of core topics like English develop their courses in cooperation with the world of work. In this post you already mention three important stakeholders: workplace representatives, students and colleagues. Good luck with your project!
One note: surveys and questionaries are an "easy" way of collecting data. Many times they are the first choice people have, since we are so used to having quantitative data, when arguing a point. I have nothing against using questionaries, but I want to remind that also focus group interviews work well. Their strength is that participant can bring up ideas that we didn't even know to ask. Also, if the idea is to develop something together, it is always more effective to meet. It could also be a combination of the two: in the survey you could ask, if somebody is wiling to a followup discussion. Instead of interviewing them individually, you could invite a couple of groups (which can be mixed = workplace representatives + teachers + students + management, or uniform = only workplace people in one group, only teachers in the other etc.)
Irmeli
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