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European Innovative Teaching Award
Project

"Cognitive Apprenticeship"/ "The application of Geothermal Heating and Cooling Systems in homes, farming and industry : advanced skills for teachers and their students"

School: 1st EPAL OF STAVROUPOLIS

Cognitive Apprenticeship - Greece

Topic(s) addressed

  • Hands-on learning with experts

  • Safety at work

  • Starting a business

  • Applying theory in real-life situations

  • Geothermal Energy- Environmental Benefits

  • Prospective and future developments in installations

  • Maintaining methodologies

Target groups

  • 13 VET apprentices

  • 13 VET students and 6 teachers

Methodologies

  • All teaching and learning actions were monitored using both on-site and distance support. 

  • “Cognitive Apprenticeship”- using the in-school developed App to monitor the interns in real-time 

  • Simultaneous training for teachers and students in the “Geothermal” flow,

  • Including students from all school sectors, promoting cooperation and a dynamic active role

Key competencies developed: 

  • linking theory and practical skills

  • Attitudes of self-adaptation

  • Ways of informal learning

Environments

  • Providing students and teachers with learning space and tools, work placement and innovative energy-saving technologies.

  • Creating good environment for cooperation and teamwork

  • Supporting cross-sectoral cooperation in electrical and mechanical engineering.

  • Collaboration of all parties- a revised approach to geothermal installation.

Teachers

  • By participating in training or assisting the interns the teachers advanced their professional skills. 

  • Their cross-sectoral cooperation enhanced their ability to discover different aspects of teaching and lifelong learning, 

  • They used new digital technologies and created an in-school network to share the results of the ongoing activities.

Impact

  • 95%- the level of satisfaction as expressed in participants’ feedback 

  • Students had the opportunity for networking with hosting companies in Spain. 

  • They built their professional portfolios which helped them find jobs at home.

  • The teachers boosted their self-confidence, opened up to new ways of teaching, 

  • They gained enthusiasm for cooperating with schools in Europe. 

Project category
VET schools
Project year
2022

Stakeholders

Coordinators

MOVEU

Address
Spain

MOVEU

Address
Germany

ALFOMBRA ROJA AB

Address
Sweden