always crowded with students in this area.
This is the first exercise we do with students in the
construction workshop. It's a screws, nails and measurement practis.
In the beggining
the students only use hand tools for the tasks and as you can see the tools are
numberd so that the students know witch tools are theirs.
For using this machinesaw education is required. This education is provided of the teachers when theirs time, or when theres more then one teacher in the workshop. After their education the students are aloved to use the saw first with the teachers attention and when the teacher see that the student can control the saw they use it whenever they need.
The school is also
training to other crafts as including bricklayers,
sheet metal
workers, carpet layers and painters
This is the school i did my internship at!
This is the major ports where we load in and out material
Peter! Is it difficult to work with these young students or would you say that they overall are motivated and disciplined? What would you say is the most crucial thing for them to learn during their first term?
ReplyDeleteSince this is an apprenticeship education the students is soon to be a part of companies in the construction industry who have a lot of traditions. I therefore think it is important that they learn a small part of the professional culture, to learn to be punctual and to be interested not passive. Can you then give them some knowledge of how to use the most common machines and tools they may feel safe when they come out to construction companies.
DeleteThank you! I am a bit curious about apprenticeship education for young students. I have read in the report by Berglund & Lindberg that apprenticeship requries that the pupil is structured and motivated. Do you see that all students benefit from apprenticeship or do you find that some get more support and structure learning VET in their schools?
DeleteThere are few students who do practice the first year, but some students who want to and are ready get the chance at the end of the first year to try a little practice. The second and third years, there is a requirement for students to be out of practice every other month. Of course there is also the opportunity for students who can not or manage their practice to get their practical training in one of the school workshops.
DeleteLooking at the photos it looks like you keep the theory and the practice separate. Is this the case, or do you try to integrate that theory and the practice? If so, how do you do that?
ReplyDeleteSusanne!
DeleteWe really try to get trade theory close to practice. We have classrooms in the immediate vicinity of the workshops. If possible, we carry out some of the theoretical part in the workshops, if there is room. When students go out of their second year they shall be offered an internship at a construction company. Therefore, the workshop is especially for those who are first year students.
Hallo Peter. Do you teach in severel subjects?
ReplyDeleteHello Stefan!
DeleteI try to stick to carpentry, but in my professional life, I have occasionally been forced to resolve things that are not carpentry, such as concrete, reinforcement, or sheet metal. However, within carpentry, I am safe and in the other professions, I have only scratched the surface.
According to Stefan, do you teach in several subjects and if how big are the classes? Dou you have diffrent professions at the same time in one classroom?
ReplyDeleteHello Gunils!
DeleteWhen students go their first semester the they try on different types of crafts. When it's two weeks left of the first semesterthe students choose specialization, such as carpentry or masonry. During the first semester,all the pupils read Building & Construction 1, where you get a quick overview of how it works in the construction industry. The class has about 17-20 students.
I know you have practised in both bricklayers and carpenters workshops, what do you think was the biggest difference?
ReplyDeleteHey Lars!
DeleteI think it feels calmer in bricklayers workshop and as if it were a little more structure. Its partly because there are more teachers and pupils at times using the carpenter's workshop. The teachers who are working to educate masons and concrete workers was very in sync when it came to the rules of bricklayers workshop and this is something we can improve in the carpentry workshop
Hello Peter, it's nice to hear that you've had some good experience from the bricklayers workshop! //Lars
DeleteWe also start the students off by only working with hand tools and only later on progress to power tools. We do this to make them have better understanding of the skills an dangers involved. Do you have the same reason ?
ReplyDeleteHi Jesper!
DeleteThe first semester students are trying out all the different occupations that we have to offer at the school and they even try the machinesaw. They may not use the saws themselves. When they then chose profession we conduct a course in sawing with machinesaw.
We also give our students a special course before they get to use power tools. After that we find that they seem reluctant to use hand tools to the same extent.
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