Practical tools for developing transversal skills in vocational education and training / Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio and Igor Filibi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escajedo San Epifanio, Leire, author.

Filibi, Igor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

With units that offer clear and synthetic theoretical guidelines, this book offers a set of very practical tools, mostly of the In-TRAY type, with which teachers of any family and grade of Vocational Education and Training (VET) can work directly with their students on transversal competences. The ZeharGAIT method, the basis of this proposal, and the 65 blocks of activities (with more than a hundred cases in total) have been tested with VET students and contrasted with teachers from different European countries. The activities have been grouped into different thematic units, offering teachers, in a clear and synthetic way, theoretical and practical elements. The units deal with teamwork, organisational relationships, interpersonal communication, managing emotions and conflict resolution. Each of the activities contains detailed instructions as well as directly downloadable elements for direct use in the classroom.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Forewords

A Ship's Engine

The ZeharGAIT Toolbox

Note on the Authors

On the Internal Structure of this Book and its Teaching Units

Unit 1: ZeharGAIT Tools

1: What Does Someone Need in Order to Improve Their Transversal Skills?

2: Work on Soft and Transversal Skills in the Bizkaia VET Sector

3: The ZeharGAIT Model

Unit 2: Teamwork

1: Initial Discussion on the Concept of "Teamwork

2: Features of Teams that May not be so Obvious

Unit 2: Block I

3: The Challenge of Turning a Group into a Team

4: Team Building Methods

Unit 2: Block II

5: The Phases/Stages in the Life and Evolution of a Team

Unit 2: Block III

6: Leading a Team

Unit 2: Block IV

7: Team Maintenance

Unit 3: Interpersonal Relationships within Organisations

1: Interpersonal Relationships and the Contexts in which They are Formed

2: Harassment and Mobbing Behaviours

3: The Duty or "Role" Each Person Performs within a Group or Organisation, and the Problems Caused by "Roles

4: Communication Between Roles and Personal Space (Proxemics)

Unit 4: Communication and Managing Emotions

1: Communication

2: That Thing They Call "Emotional Intelligence

3: Activities for Working on Assertiveness

4: Listening to Understand How to Communicate

5: Sometimes our Mind Plays Tricks on Us

6 Case Studies on Listening and Communication

7: Non-Verbal Communication

Unit 5: Conflict Resolution

1: What Conflict Is, and Some Thoughts on Whether Solving it is Necessary and Possible

2: Creating or Identifying Possible Spaces for Mediation and Taking Advantage of Them

3: Conflict Which Arises as a Result of Not Properly Resolving Previous Conflict

4: On Forgiveness

Appendices

Index of ZeharGAIT Activities

References and Further Reading.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Escajedo San-Epifanio, Leire Practical Tools for Developing Transversal Skills in Vocational Education and Training

ISBN:

1-5275-1006-9

OCLC:

1381094059