Trades education prepares learners to become productive, reliable and valued members of our workforce. Technical skills are at the core of the curriculum and are tested to pass the program. Without essential skills, our students will not be able to pass these exams.
I believe that conveying values and methods that go beyond the written, explicit job skills that our programs focus on is important.
The introduction of online learning tools in trades education was not as widely developed as in more academic settings. The need to close classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a pivot to full online classrooms.
When I learned about how our brain learns during the cognitive science session of the course I am taking (PIDP 3100), I could not help but think about my own and my daughter’s challenges. Listen to the podcast Transcript In this episode, I would like to present some background of a condition that (according to HealthLinkBC) affects about …
For the learning theory report in my PIDP course at VCC, I chose to learn about Indigenous learning philosophies. As always when I learn about the cultures we settlers have oppressed (and still do), I am blown away by the richness and depth of things we still need to learn.
For my course at VCC PIDP 3100 I interviewed Chantale Hutchinson from Okanagan College. Here is a recording of our conversation:
While we have an obligation to supply our trades students with the required learning, we also need to teach them how to continue learning after they complete our program.
One way to help solve the current shortage of qualified tradespeople is attracting more women into the skilled trades.
This Instructional strategies report is an assignment for the Course PIDP 3250 I am taking at Vancouver Community College.
