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In the following exercise, you will be given a series of situations. Each of the participants will be given a role, and they will have to act through said situation following the rules of the given role. There will also be at least two people observing the situation, and they will be in charge of analysing the behaviour of each participant and the situation itself.

At the end, as a group, you will decide whether the way of acting of each participant was the most appropriate, and how could it have been improved.

ROLEPLAY 1

You have recently started working as an apprentice trainer for a VET provider. You have been assigned with the task of scheduling and organizing the meetings with external users to discuss about their background experiences and start the process of designing a labour integration path. You are not very easy-going in interacting with beneficiaries and appeared lacking self-confidence and motivation.

You are a tutor working for a training institution; you have assigned your apprentice the task to schedule and implement a number of orientation meetings with beneficiaries. During the implementation of the task, you realized that the apprentice was not very self-confident and at ease in interacting with people. What would you do?

You work as a trainer within a VET provider and you have been asked to collaborate with an apprentice in carrying out orientation meeting with beneficiaries to discuss about their resources, background and experiences and start developing a labour integration path. You were not very comfortable in working with the apprentice because he was very quiet and appeared very insecure and not at ease in implementing the task. What would you do?

YOU ARE AN OBSERVER

YOU ARE AN OBSERVER

Discussion questions for the group

Was the way of acting of each participant appropriate?

How could it have been improved.

GROUP WORK

Step 1: Designing an evaluation

Imagine that you are working with an apprentice marketing operator within a manufacturing company. You have assigned the apprentice the task to “interpret interim and final reports on sales trade and analyze the deviations from the foreseen objectives”.

In groups, describe the steps you will take to plan and implement your evaluation, using the forms provided in the module

Step 2: Discussion

An external observer will evaluate the quality of the evaluation plan provided by each group and discuss with different participants about the main flaws and strengths

 ROLE PLAY 2

Participants will be split into groups and each participant will receive one of the following cards so that s/he has information to participate in the role-play. Two people will observe and provide their feedback at the end of the simulation

Card for the in-company tutor

You are tutoring an apprentice working as apprentice marketing specialist within your company. You have recently conducted an evaluation on the tasks performed by your apprentice and found out that the apprentice has not achieved the pre-defined learning outcomes. Fill in the monthly report and organize a meeting with the apprentice to discuss about the evaluation result and provide your feedback.

Card for the apprentice

You are working as apprentice marketing specialist within a manufacturing company. You scored very low in the evaluation conducted by your tutor. You believe that you did not have enough time to carry out the task and also you did not know where to find relevant documents to carry out the task properly. You decide to talk about your concern with your in-company tutor. You believe that if you had enough time and support by your colleagues you would have managed to score higher in the evaluation. You think that your colleagues should have known that they had to support you although you did not ask as you are an apprentice.

Discussion questions for the group

Was the way of acting of each participant appropriate?

How could it have been improved?