Step 2 – Assess your current position

1. Individually

Please read the text below individually: which phase suits your training now? Which indicators apply or do not apply to the situation your training is in?

2. Collectively

After a few minutes please discuss your personal findings in the group. Try to find a shared opinion by listening carefully to everyone’s arguments. Try to avoid voting. Click the green button if all indicators are fulfilled, click the blue button if not all indicators are met. Then click the button which helps you to identify your ambition: what is the next phase you want to go to?

A phase is completed if all indicators are met – and all of those of the phases before! So phase 3 can only be achieved if all indicators of phase 1 and 2 are met.

Practical vocational training (PVT)

During Practical Vocational Training, like internships and practical assignments, students come into contact with sustainability. The students are stimulated to take up a stance and to consider their opinion in their deliberations, decisions and recommendations.

This is made possible by 1) the design of the assignment, 2) the choice in topic and 3) the choice in work space.

1
Activity oriented
- In the PVT, some elements of sustainability are present.
2
Process oriented
- Every student completes at least one PVT assignment in which sustainability is a key point.
3
System oriented
- Sustainability is a permanent part of every PVT.
- Upon completion of each PVT, the student is asked to reflect on his/her knowledge and skills on the subject of sustainability.
- The teacher and/or internship give the student feedback on his/her skills regarding sustainability.
4
Chain oriented
- Clients from regional businesses regularly set assignments on sustainability for the PVT.
- Students tackle questions on sustainability for their PVT companies.
5
Society oriented
- The personal responsibility of the student as a future professional and citizen is dealt with in assignments.
- CSOs set assignments on sustainability for the PVT.

Step 2 – Assess your current position

1. Individually

2. Collectively

Step 3 – Determine your ambition

Practical vocational training (PVT)