Tailoring teachers target skills development
Tailoring teachers target skills development
Nine tailoring teachers who recently received certificates after completing a training course will now be able to help increase much needed garment industry labourers' skills.
The Lao garment industry currently needs 10,000 more tailors each year to supply factories, but there is a lack of skilled labourers in the country.
Director of the Garment Skills Development Centre, Ms Borivone Phafong said during the closing ceremony for the “Training of Trainer Qualification” that it was aimed to encourage teachers to become better trainers as part of a push to further improve labour skills in the garment sector.
The course was supported by the German Development Coopera tion Project or Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Teacher Education Programme implemented by GIZ.
The training was provided to improve professional skills and knowledge in both vocational pedagogy and practical application of tailoring trainers from the provinces of Xieng Khuang, Huaphan, Phongsaly, Borikhamxay, Saravan, Xekong and Attapeu.
The 64 days of training comprised pedagogical and technical modules as well as modules on entrepreneurship, and focusing on sewing operators, pattern making, and basic entrepreneur development.
The course emphasised the change from using traditional methods to applying modern tools and developing design drawings.
These skills would assist teachers to understand business management principles so they could guide and advise vocational students for further income generation or set up their own businesses.
Trainers were also able to use their knowledge on entrepreneurship to develop the learning environment, which was appropriate for the occupational field of tailoring.
Project Director of TVET Teacher Education Programme, Mr Eberhard Frey expressed his hope that tail oring teachers trained in the course would gain improved skills from their lessons and they could pass on knowledge obtained to students.
The initiative would be up scaled for the education and training of further tailoring teachers and implemented as a transfer project back in their vocational and technical schools which would sustainably improve the quality of the tailoring training in their schools, he said.
