Session 1: “Scenarios” at the Bremen Consultation Workshop

Dear colleagues,

The first working session of the Bremen Consultation Workshop invites the participants to work with different scenarios for the professional development of teachers and trainers in vocational education and training (VET).

We will have three parallel groups:

Group 1: Professional development of trainers

Group 2: Professional development of VET teachers

Group 3: Changing roles of VET teachers and trainers.

What do we want to achieve? We try to get a picture of different tensions and strategic choices that have an impact on the future development of VET teachers and trainers. We want to list arguments for different choices and map possible consequences. We want to see, what role European and national policies can play.

How does this help us further? The work with the scenarios gives us an overview, where we stand now and where we might be going. This helps us to make comments on the issues that have been raised by prior consultation workshops and by recent European projects.

How does this contribute to the final results of the consultation process? The work with scenarios is a new element that was not tried out in the regional workshops.  Yet, it is possible to link the messages that arise from the workshops to the scenarios.

Best wishes for the work with scenarios,

Pekka Kämäräinen (on behalf of the organisers)