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Our post today is about Competence-Based Curriculum. It's so common in the Finnish curriculum in all levels of education. We have seen it in practice in the visits at schools. Therefore, to talk about this subject, we thought about a new Vocational Qualification Course, on Urban Transit. During the presentation of this course it is possible to verify the skills and competences required and how it'll be implemented and assessed.
Vocational Qualification in Urban Transit
1. Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology
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2. About the Course
This course aims to carry out the procedures for the traffic planning, management and operation. Furthermore, the Transit Vocational Course intents to promote the education, accessibility and security of the traffic. Among the activities developed within the course, the student will learn about the organization and the traffic control, as well as upon the equipment maintenance, monitoring transit and the public ways. As a methodology for the course is relied on Project Based Learning (PBL), which is in all steps of the course. The student will experience theoric contents in a practical way (learn-by-doing). In PBL, the learning is contextual and shared. Students collaborate on meaningful projects that require critical thinking, communication and creativity, so that they can answer challenging questions or solve complex problems regarding the course skills.
3. Skills and Competences
3.1. Skills
- Survey of resources available
- Survey of activities related to logistics of traffic flow in the region
- Collect data for the preparation of a traffic plan with the mapping of the transport stream;
- Collect data to prepare environmental impact reports;
- Scale out improvements and installations;
- Develop an action timetable that integrates theory and practice;
3.2. Competences
- Know the operation of the public transport;
- Identify if the volume of passengers vs. amount of transport is sufficient to attend the population;
- Check if the bus stops are marked with the script and the estimated time of arrival;
- Build crosswalks;
- Introduce traffic signs to the public transport;
- Develop folders with the mapping of the bus to the study area;
- Analyze the available resources and the technical, economic and social situation of the region;
- Identify and plan the activities to be implemented;
- Compare the results and evaluate the cost-effectiveness of activities;
- Evaluate the impact of activities;
- Evaluate the environmental impact caused by transit;
- Quantify and compatible the need for hand labor, human resources, machinery, equipments and materials.
- Identify the functions of the transportations and its role in circulation of goods and people, movement of goods and people in international in local, national, regional scale;
- Relate transport ,transit,human occupation,time and environment as parts of one system;
- Execute the logistics of transport and traffic, applying strategies that matching resources with demands;
- Identify the characteristics of the road network;
- Apply regulations regarding vehicle traffic and the passengers transport, identifying the agencies that standardize it, in Brazil and abroad;
- Organize and manage transport and traffic operations.
3.3. Lifelong Competences
- Learning and problem solving;
- Interaction and co-operation;
- Vocational ethics;
- Health, safety and ability to function;
- Initiative and entrepreneurship;
- Sustainable development;
- Communication and media skills;
- Mathematics and natural sciences;
- Technology and information technology;
- Active citizenship and different cultures.
4. Study Programme
5. Learning Through a Entrepreneurial Action
During the studies the students have to create a cooperative company in order to provide benefits for the urban transit. The students also actively develop teamwork and leadership skills. In this way, during the studies process, they gain experience and earn money for our team cooperative companies. Our main goal is promoting benefits to the urban transit. Collaborative networks built during the studies ease access to working life.
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