Here is the one and only first year student. She is attending the apprenticeship. Three days a week she spends in a Preeschool and two days at school. This is her class in Pedagogics.
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Only one first year student
Nösnäsgymnasiet has difficulties in recruting new students to the Child care and recreation programme.
Here is the one and only first year student. She is attending the apprenticeship. Three days a week she spends in a Preeschool and two days at school. This is her class in Pedagogics.
Here is the one and only first year student. She is attending the apprenticeship. Three days a week she spends in a Preeschool and two days at school. This is her class in Pedagogics.
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To bad not more students applied to this programme. Do you know why?
ReplyDeleteThe talk about VET students not allowed to go to university is the main issue, I think.
DeleteWe sometimes have the same problem of low student numbers. Unfortunatley child care is quite a low paid occupation in Australia - educators are not financially renumerated for the work they do.
ReplyDeleteI notice that your students undertake an apprenticeship. How long does this take?
Apprentice education and school-based education both takes three years.
DeleteIt´s a shame that it is a low paid work! It´s the same in Sweden and I think it´s one of the most important work you can do in the community.
ReplyDeleteSuch a shame and such a strange situation for her! How many students are there in the Child and recreation programme in year two and three?
ReplyDeleteThere are 17 students in year three and none in year two. The teachers think that there have been so much bad talk about VET at TV and because of that parents don`t want their children to apply. Stenungsund is only about 60 km from Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, and I suppose many students prefer to study there.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing what an impact negative publicity can have! We continually have the same battle competing with the universities. People see the role of 'teacher' as better than the role of 'early childhood educator'.
DeleteHopefully one day the government and community will realise how critical the 'early years' are and invest more money in this area!
The other problem we sometimes have is that school counsellors give the wrong information to high school students about what a career in early childhood invloves.
In some TAFEs in Australia very small classes are worked with differently to mainstream classes. For instance, if there was just one student the teacher might go to the childcare centre where she works and work with the student on site. Or maybe she would do only one day a week at the school because when you work one on one with a student you can work faster. Are flexible arrangements like this possible in Sweden?
ReplyDeleteI don´t really know, but I don´t think that we are that flexible.
ReplyDeleteWhen the appreniceship students are at school, they mostly study general upper secondary subjects; History, Maths, English, Sports and Health, Natural Sciences, Religious Knowledge, Social Studies and Swedish.