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Process Re-Engineering Exercise for the NTA

Does a ball go where you kick it –Dr.Lennox H. Sealy

On Friday 18th and Monday 21st January 2008, the National Training Agency embarked on a key exercise aptly titled Process Re-Engineering. Members of the management team as well as the Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Elphege Joseph along with members of each department were all invited to participate in this exercise.
The exercise was facilitated by Dr. Lennox Sealy, who has facilitated many workshops and intervention exercises such as this one, the exercise was held at the gracious and very rustic Ortinola Conference center in Maracas Valley, St.Joseph.

This exercise fell quickly on the heels of the Team Building Exercise held at Sevilla Club, one week before. The National Training Agency has embarked on a rigorous road of self evaluation which would inevitably reinvent and re-energize the works of the NTA. The general aim of this exercise was to create a mindset that spoke to each and everyone present at the workshop as to who the customers were for the NTA, as well assess if the systems existing were supporting the customers or hindering them .
Dr. Sealys’ intervention also brought to the fore the importance and the critical role that the NTA plays in human capital development, more specifically skills development in Trinidad and Tobago as well as the region as a whole, he poke of the NTA as being “ the repository of information for skills development ‘’.

The two days were filled with discussion and team building exercises that spoke to the aim of the retreat . The team was asked to look at the future core business of the NTA and a closer look was tken at the role of support services, probing questions and thought provoking answers were given which shed a luminous light on the way forward for the NTA.

Officers who attended were asked to keep the momentum going by keeping their teams together and drilling down and getting to the exact science that articulates itself into a process map.

 

Using Blended Learning Strategies in Competency Based Training
A technical workshop for TVET practitioners in the development of the CVQs…

November 13-17, 2006
Centre of Excellence, Trinidad
Organized by the National Training Agency in collaboration with Cinterfor/ILO, the Caribbean Association of National Training Agencies and ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean

The workshop will utilize the successful experiences from a similar ICT workshop in 2004 that involved participants from national training agencies in Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and St. Lucia. In addition to building on last year’s success the workshop will share with participants TVET related information from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as drawing on experiences from the on-going CINTERFOR/ILO regional information technology exchange project.

The workshop will link information communication technology with a series of TVET themes that include: 

  1. Applying adult learning principles to competency based skill delivery
  2. Exploring types of learning applications as tools for TVET delivery in open and distance environments
  3. Sharing and implementing ICT skills in the Americas
  4. Translating technical content into varied instructional forma

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
At the workshop’s conclusion participants will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of how technology can be used to effectively match learner characteristics with the conditions in the teaching/learning process.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics, functions and uses of types of instructional media (projected, non-projected, computer-based).
  3. Evaluate computer-based instructional materials and tutorials.
  4. Evaluate computer-based instructional materials
  5. Discuss trends, issues and developments with Distance Education.
  6. Use computer-based tutorials.
  7. Develop computer-based assessment instruments.
  8. Manipulate supporting technologies including digital camera, imaging and scanner, I pods, multimedia projector
  9. Research Internet-based resources suitable for area of specialisation.
  10. Demonstrate steps in creating a web page
  11. Develop an integration plan for ICT utilization at the institutional level.  (Track 1 participants).
  12. Develop a technical TVET lesson or lessons using ICT instructional techniques (track 2 participants).
 
DEVELOPING A TVET OPERATING MODEL FOR CARICOM

Over the period Wednesday 6 th April 2005 to Friday 8 th April 2005, the Caribbean Association of National Training Agencies (CANTA) had agreed to jointly host a workshop entitled “Developing a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Operating Model for CARICOM” with the International Labour Organization (ILO) Caribbean Sub-Regional Office and CARICOM.

The objectives of this workshop are geared towards the harmonizing and standardizing of the processes and procedures for:

• Developing National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) and the production of a regional qualification.

• Developing National Occupational Standards (NOS) of Competence and instructional materials

• Establishing the role of a Labour Market Information

• Quality Assurance regime

• Awarding and certifying qualifications

• Centre Approval

• Documenting the entire process and ensuring a compliance with this agreement.
 
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