Assessment training P.I. Vught

1. Assessment trainingP.I. Vught Malta 19 - 23 september

2. Characteristics of inmates in Europe • Between 60 % and 80% is unschooled or has not finished the secondary school • About 50% are illiterates • Between 40% and 75% is unemployed, has a lack of work-experience or has had little various jobs Malta 19 - 23 september

3. Situation in the Netherlands(ESF 2004-2006) • Unemployment before detention is very high ( 71%) and after detention even higher (79%) • About 50% of the target-group are abusers • About 60 % has social or/and psychiatric problems • About 45% are foreigners who have problems with the culture, the language and social skills Malta 19 - 23 september

4. Recidivism • Recidivism of ex-inmates is 10% higher when they are unemployed • Not only getting a job is very important for reducing recidivism but also keeping a job is an important factor for successful integration in the society Malta 19 - 23 september

5. What is needed? • Reintegration of the prisoners to the labour market. • Needs: • vocational qualifications • work-experience • employment skills Malta 19 - 23 september

6. What did we do? • Research to identify the intern possibilities to integrate vocational training in the curriculum • Research to identify possibilities of the target group on the labour market. • Inventory of motivation: • the management • the professionals • the teachers • the inmates Malta 19 - 23 september

7. How did we do that? • Work together with an external school to implement qualified courses • Startingpoint: • Connection with consisting opportunities in the intern production • Implementation of the courses with intern personnel ( teachers and foreman) • Admission of official ( national and international) certificates Malta 19 - 23 september

8. What came next? • Foreman are trained by the regional education centre • Workrooms are suited to the training • Workrooms are accredited by the concerning lines of business • Inmates are selected for the courses • Inmates are enrolled in the regular school Malta 19 - 23 september

9. What is the result? • Different (6) qualified vocational training courses: • Content: • practical lessons (foreman/ vocational trainers) • theoretic lessons ( teachers) • work-experience (foreman/ vocational trainers) * Guidance and examination by teachers of the regional education centre Malta 19 - 23 september

10. Logistics and reach-truck Malta 19 - 23 september

11. Welding Malta 19 - 23 september

12. Painting Malta 19 - 23 september

13. Woodwork Malta 19 - 23 september

14. What did we do to improve the schooling of the foreman? • The regional education school developed a program (instrument) to help foreman to judge the required competencies ( see next slide) • The vocational trainers (12) went to a course to acquaintance with the program and to learn how to observe and to mark the required competencies • Designing effective instruction to teach inmates working skills during their courses Malta 19 - 23 september

15. Required competencies of the “general assistant level” are: • 1. preparation of own tasks/activities • 2. working safe and environment aware • 3. take care of quality of work • 4. working together • 5. communication while working • 6. act client focused • 7. dealing with problems • 8. continuous development of competencies • 9. sustain working relations Malta 19 - 23 september

16. Content of the course • Acquaintance with the qualification-dossier core-tasks: • working as an employer in an organisation • assisting by all regular occurred activities • process, responsibility, complexity, concerned persons, expedients, quality of process and result, choices and questions Malta 19 - 23 september

17. Example of the assessment program Malta 19 - 23 september

18. Participants evaluation of the course • A helping hand by the observation of behaviour while working (in terms of required competencies) • A good instrument to determinate the start-level of the student, to define one's learning-process and to evaluate this. • Insight in the necessity to get more didactic tools to guide the learning-process Malta 19 - 23 september

19. Recommendation • To develop a train the trainer course for foreman/ vocational trainers to help them to acquire employees skills to the special target-group of inmates Malta 19 - 23 september

20. Development-process • Together with a professional of the PSW and two intern trainer/coaches we collected important required input to design an effective instruction-program for the foreman and vocational trainers in our institution Malta 19 - 23 september

21. How did we do that? • They interviewed the management of the foreman, the foreman and the teachers and asked them about there ideas for an effective training • One of our trainers was familiar with the assessment-training (ARVA) for inmates and we decided to use to make a connection between this training and the training for the foreman. Malta 19 - 23 september

22. Next steps • We identified instructional problems and specifying goals • We identified characteristics of learners or trainees • We specified instructional objectives • We designed instructional strategies suiting to the target-group • We developed evaluation instruments/ procedures Malta 19 - 23 september

23. The goals • Improve personal effectiveness • Associate with difficult behaviour • Associate with emotions (private and others) • Knowledge of different levels of communication (intercultural) • Insight in the demands of the modern labour-market Malta 19 - 23 september

24. The content of the training Effective instruction strategies to improve didactic skills: • To inspire and motivate • To observe, to analyse and to associate with deviant behaviour • To learn about different learning-styles • To learn about team-rolls and coaching styles • To experience the importance of the personal attitude (roll-model) • To learn about intercultural backgrounds • To practice with intercultural conversation Malta 19 - 23 september

25. The training • We designed a course-book for the specific instruction (input effective instructional strategies) • We trained during 5 days ( once a week) with 12 foreman in a special training setting • We used all kinds of methods and instructional (media) programs;including an actor for training intercultural conversation Malta 19 - 23 september

26. Evaluation • During the training we collected all the important remarks and parked them on a sheet • We invited some people of the management to give an answer to the most urgent questions • The last day we evaluated the training and invited the head of education to communicate the outcome and to show the parked remarks • Together we tried to find solutions for the problems and we discussed about the recommendations/ ideas to improve the training and the required work circumstances Malta 19 - 23 september