1. Training the trainers of basic skills
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Training the trainers of
basic skills
- Experiences of the current project SESAM -
17th-18th October 2013
Bergen, Norway

2. The SESAM project
SESAM project - Strategies to develop and to use existing counselling services aimed at promoting work related basic education in North Rhine-Westphalia - a contribution to encourage the employees in companies (10/01/2012 – 03/31/2015)

3. The structure SESAM Counselling sercvices Trainers of basic skills
The upgrade training course
‚Work related basic education‘
Enterprises

4. The aims of SESAM
Awareness raising to the stakeholders of different branches to the issue of work related basic education
Training the trainers of basic skills in work related basic education and connecting them to the existing counselling services
Arranging work related basic education concepts, in collaboration with the enterprises, the existing counselling services and the trainers of work related basic education

5. The upgrade training course
Started on 06/21/13; ended on 09/21/13
Consists of six modules
The dates and the modules:
06/21/13 – 06/22/13: Module 1+2
07/12/13 – 07/13/13: Module 3+4
09/21/ : Module 5+6
The participants: seven freelancers; working as trainers in adult education centers in North Rhine-Westphalia

6. The upgrade training course
Module 1: basics of work related basic education
Module 2: identification of needs and order clarification
Module 3: developing a concept
Module 4: didactics of work related basic education
Module 5: learning transfer, learning provision, ensuring success
Module 6: workshop solutions and options – offer development

7. Module 1: basics of work related basic education
Our philosophy of work related basic education
The starting points of work related basic education
Methods to get some knowledge about the different needs of different branches

8. Module 2: identification of needs and order clarification
In SESAM the existing counselling services are responsible to get an access to companies, so the trainers reflected their role in making acquisitions
The participants learned more about the arguments that agree with the logic of the employers / in the rationale of the company
identification of needs and order clarification
negotiating order and conditions

9. Module 3: developing a concept
The participants learned more about the way into the company and how to communicate with the different stakeholders
They got more to know about planning and cost calculations
They used the learning map method to research educational requirements and needs

10. Module 4: didactics of work related basic education
Starting point of work related basic education are the current challenges at the work places
Work place as a learning space
The participants learned more about appreciative, respectful and dialogue-orientated ways and methods which be used.
E.g.: the so-called IST-Method (Issues; Settings; Tasks)
With this method the current challenges at the work place can be transformed in an educational concept

11. Module 5: learning transfer, learning provision, ensuring success
A learning transfer agreement with the management and the participants has proven its value. It could be contracted in written or in verbal form. These contracts can for example include:
Agreements about the learning times
Financing of the learning times
Probation periods and trial lessons
Binding character of participation
Certificate of attendance
Controlling/benefit for participants and companies
Responsibilities
Possibilities of sanctioning

12. Module 6: workshop solutions and options – offer development
In this last module the participants presented their own work related basic education concepts
These concepts considered everything they learned from the past modules
In the end all participants were certificated as a work related basic education trainer