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A MODEL OF THE MODULAR COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING, RETRAINING,
AND UPGRADE OF QUALIFICATIONS
A. A. Kiva,
T. A. Vasilkova
The post-crisis economy draws the attention of employers and educational institutions to the qualitative characteristics of qualified personnel. Multi-tiered and multi-discipline institutions of vocational education are required to provide content and techniques within the educational process that are appropriate for the specifics the specifics of adult learners who have some experience and their own opinion and motivation.
Retraining of adults is carried out according to the professions of initial qualification within the Russian National Classification of Occupations of Employees, Positions of Civil Servants and Wage Category (hereinafter, the Russian National Classification). Professions of an initial vocational education include an average of 3-4 professions in the Russian National Classification. Moreover, a number of professions in the Russian National Classification are related and have common (invariant) vocational knowledge and skills. This allows an algorithm to be specified for the design of programs in related professions, having distinguished their invariant component. It is implemented with particular success on a modular competency-based foundation for mobile and non-formalized training based on competencies.
To obtain any profession in the Russian National Classification (for example, professsion-1), it is necessary to master a set of professional modules. In order to undergo retraining in a related profession of the Russian National Classification, in addition to the studying the invariant part (which includes the invariant modules), another set of professional modules necessary for the particular student should be mastered. Having mastered several professions of the Russian National Classification, the student can learn a profession of initial vocational education, and later - a specialty of secondary vocational education, having mastered several additional disciplines under the Federal State Educational Standards of Initial Vocational Education (Specialized Secondary Education).
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According to the model of vocational training, retraining and upgrading of qualifications for adults by means of modular programs (Fig. 2), training at the initial category can culminate in employment, and also be continued by means of upgrading qualifications at the next level or through mastery of one / several modules (or modular programs) for increased competencies.
Fig. 1. A model for retraining adults in related professions of the Russian National Classification, professions of an initial vocational education, and specialties of a specialized
secondary education
The module presented in Fig. 3 of a modular competency-based approach for the realization of programs for vocational retraining of adults provides two options for the development of educational and pedagogical documents (hereinafter, EPD) for training in occupations of the Russian National Classification. Firstly, the possibility of developing EPD based on the requirements of professional standards (if any exist); secondly, in the
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absence of professional standards, development of EPD based on the requirements of employers (Uniform Wage-Rates and Skills Handbook (ETKC), the Russian National Classification of Occupations (OKZ), and job descriptions. One way or another, as a result we obtain types of professional activities that give the opportunity to formulate competences, the mastery of which allow for mastery of one or another profession.
The models presented for the implementation of a modular competency-based approach in programs for vocational retraining of adults in multi-tiered and multi-discipline educational institutions in Moscow allow for the principle of variation and an individual approach to vocational retraining, which is especially important for the adult contingent, to be realized to the fullest extent.
Fig. 2. A model of vocational training, retraining, and upgrading of qualifications for adults in modular programs.
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Professional
standards
PROFESSION
Fig. 3. A module of the modular competency-based approach to realization of programs of vocational retraining of adults.
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