Uge 48 og 49

Kort oprids:

• Anne Goul med på combar teamet
• Trekantssamtaler, mangler Qaqortoq, Pamiut samt Upernavik
• Barrierer afdækket iforbindelse med samtalerne: Sprog/dk-forlade familien til næste skoleophold.
• Fremstille og udsende opgaven til testen d. 12.dec.
• Orientering til mestrene og lærlingene.

Annes skrift på Combarportalen:

Hello all
Here is an update from SI. Hopefully in future you will find updates such as this with a rather higher frequency than so far.
New team member at SI:
First off, I (Anne - AGN) have been attached to the COMBAR team here on SI to help overcome one of our communication barriers in the project, namely the language barrier. My COMBAR claim to fame is that I did SI's mini-evaluation of WP 2 for the Iceland meeting. My role at the moment will mainly be to communicate about our progress with you COMBAR partners. Once the test period ends I will be responsible for making our final evaluation of the Pilot Test together with Poul.
Pilot Test Evaluation:
The Pilot test period will end on January 25th. Therefore, we have started to brainstorm on the format of our final evaluation. Because the test group is so small this will mainly be based on qualitative interviews with the different parties involved, as we believe nothing significant can really be gleaned from quantitative surveys. Although, qualitative midway interviews might have been useful, the testing has now proceeded so far that it would be redundant, considering that we will have to do interviews at the end of the Test in any case, and the learners will be returning to school right after the upcoming Christmas holidays. We do have some feedback on the testing in progress from the 3-way-talks that John has been conducting. I will be in touch with Dorin and other interested partners about developement of interview guidelines shortly.
3-way-talks:
As Poul wrote last week John has had 3-way-talks with learners and TRs in the Combar region in weeks 45 - 47. These talks worked out very well and as a result some barriers have been identified, and steps are being taken to ovecome them.
1 learner had good professional skills, but faced a language barrier as his Danish skills were poor. In collaboration between SI and OP he will now be offered to do a teacher supported e-learning course in Danish, starting when he returns to the school. The exact format for this will be worked out in the near future, and hopefully that can then be a model for similar measures in the future.
1 learner was reluctant to leave his family (wife and 2 children) for the 4 months that the next school period lasts. (geographical/social barrier). Now steps are being takenin collaboration between TR and SI to find accomodation in Sisimiut for the whole family for the duration of the school period.
1 learner had fallen behind on his joint assignments because he was missing feedback, this was discussed and he will now be supported in catching up on them.
Communication has (perhaps predictably) been a bit more difficult with the Traineeship Places outside the original COMBAR region, but John has been in touch with them all and will be conducting the 3-way-talks with them next week if all goes well.
That is all for now from SI. I'll be back with more later.
-Anne

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