Recently, Chad Flinn (Dean of Trades & Technology at Medicine Hat College) and I started a podcast to support Trades and Technology instructors at MHC, but the episodes might have a broader appeal to other educational developers and trades faculty interested in Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET).
Episode 01 - Assessment in Trades and Technology
A lot of trades students come into the trades with a negative history and relationship with schooling, many being told they were smart enough to do anything but go into the trades. Most trades are also governed by a body that requires high-stakes summative exams. This has huge and important implications for how trades instructors prepare their students for these exams and go beyond these exams in their assessment strategies. This episode explores some of the challenges and new opportunities for rethinking assessment in the trades.
https://share.transistor.fm/s/539291b6?trk=public_post-content_share-embed-video_share-article_title
Episode 02 - What worked and what didn’t
If we could go back to February 2020 before the pandemic (not that anyone would want to live through the past year again), and ask trades instructors what they would say if we told them that they would be teaching predominantly online for the next year, the answers probably would have included at least a couple expletives. But it happened. What can we learn from it as we approach the future of trades education?
https://share.transistor.fm/s/255cd8e8?trk=public_post-content_share-embed-video_share-article_title