Description
This job shadowing programme is a five-day professional learning initiative designed for Vocational Education and Training (VET) teachers seeking to strengthen their industry knowledge and enhance their teaching practice. Depending on the identified learning needs, participants gain first-hand insight into enterprises and VET schools through structured job shadowing of experienced professionals and teachers, guided observation, and professional discussions with staff.
The programme provides a comprehensive understanding of workplace organisation, production processes, quality standards, and skills requirements in real business and educational environments. It highlights current industry practices, innovative teaching approaches, and employer expectations, supporting teachers in aligning vocational curricula with labour-market needs and strengthening cooperation between VET education and the world of work.
The job shadowing programme strengthens VET teachers’ professional competences through direct exposure to real working and educational environments. Participants develop adaptive learning skills by observing and analysing workplace practices, teaching methods, and organisational models, and by transferring industry-related knowledge into vocational teaching contexts.
The programme enhances communication, interpersonal, and intercultural competences through collaboration with company staff, VET teachers, and international peers. Participants gain greater awareness of work organisation, professional standards, pedagogical approaches, and labour-market requirements, supporting closer alignment between vocational curricula, school practices, and employer expectations.
Participants also strengthen inclusive and learner-centred teaching competences, drawing on both workplace mentoring models and school-based teaching practices to better support diverse learner needs. The mobility fosters emotional awareness, professional resilience, and professional confidence, while empowering teachers to act as advocates for education–industry cooperation and high-quality work-based learning.
The programme is implemented using a practice-oriented job shadowing methodology that combines structured observation, guided participation, and reflective learning. Participants follow a planned schedule of job shadowing, observing experienced professionals and teachers to understand daily tasks, work processes, teaching methods, and organisational practices in real business and educational environments.
Learning is supported through preparatory briefings, guided discussions with company staff and VET teachers, and continuous reflection on observed practices. Participants analyse how workplace standards, technologies, pedagogical approaches, and skills requirements can be transferred into vocational teaching, work-based learning, and curriculum development.
The methodology includes individual reflection, peer exchange, and facilitated feedback sessions to support professional learning and the consolidation of outcomes. Emphasis is placed on experiential learning, intercultural exchange, and the practical application of knowledge, ensuring the relevance, transferability, and sustainability of learning results.
As a result of the job shadowing programme, participating VET teachers gain updated knowledge of workplace practices, professional standards, and labour-market requirements through direct exposure to VET schools and companies. They enhance their ability to integrate international work-based learning models, school–enterprise cooperation practices, and real-world examples into vocational teaching and curriculum development.
Participants strengthen communication, intercultural, and cooperation competences, supporting effective collaboration with company professionals, VET teachers, and international partners. The mobility increases teachers’ professional confidence, resilience, and motivation, contributing to improved teaching quality, learner engagement, and pedagogical innovation.
The programme results in stronger cooperation between VET institutions, businesses, and VET schools, increased internationalisation of vocational education, and enhanced capacity to support learners’ employability, career orientation, and successful transition to the labour market.
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Our Pricing
100% funded by the Erasmus+
Services included
- Pre-arrival information.
- Tuition & training materials.
- Training Certificate.
- Europass Certificate.
- Admin & organizational costs.
services
- Accommodation (hotels & self-catering apartments).
- Half-day and one-day trips.
- Cultural activities.
- Airport transfer.
- Local transport.
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