Successful train the trainer course in tailoring

Closing ceremony of qualification course for tailoring teachers

By Khambang Seneboutdy & Tiffany Siegert

Beginning of April the two and half month training of trainer qualification course ended and was

officially closed with a ceremony in the Garment Skills Development Centre.

From end of January, 9 tailoring teachers from six different IVET schools learned how to

communicate their knowledge in tailoring to their students. The participants came from schools

in Phongsaly, Houaphan, Xiengkhouang, Boulikhamxay, Saravan and Attapeu.

The German Development Cooperation project ‘TVET

Teacher Education Programme’(TTEP), implemented

by ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale

Zusammenarbeit’ (GIZ), supported the course. TTEP

project director Mr Eberhard Frey attended the closing

ceremony as well as Ms Katja Freitag, TTEP Junior

Advisor. TTEP supports the training of teachers to

enrich the quality of tailoring courses and thereby

strengthening the Lao tailoring training system as a

whole.

In her speech at the closing ceremony Mrs Borivone Phafong, Director of the Garment Skill

Development Centre, emphasised that the main objective of this training programme was to

give the participants the possibility to improving their professional skills and knowledge in both

vocational pedagogy and practical application of tailoring. During the 11 weeks course, four

different components covered pedagogical, technical and entrepreneurial aspects.

All participants had the opportunity to visit different factories to exchange information about the

workforce demand, training needs, modern technology, production line and career guidance.

Moreover, they could get into direct contact with factory production and human resources

managers on topics like productions processes and recruitment policies. During the course,

participants also had the opportunity to conduct a small market research to practice business

management principles. Through this training, they are enabled to qualify, guide and advise

vocational students on further income generation or to set up their own business. TVET

teachers can use the knowledge on entrepreneurship to develop learning environments which

are appropriate for the occupational field of tailoring.

During the closing ceremony, Mr Frey Project Director expressed his hope that the tailoring

teachers trained in the course could improve their skills based on the received lessons and that

they would use their new knowledge. He hoped for the actual set-up of transfer projects back in

the different IVET schools which would sustainably improve the quality of the tailoring training in

these schools.

Further information

Project description of TTEP

http://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/17468.html

GIZ’s challenges, approaches and achievements in the Lao education sector

http://www.giz.de/en/downloads_els/Education_Impact_Sheet%282%29.pdf