O2 - Project of Study Program for the Qualification of Tutor common for SAPSM, HdP and MRVT aims to establish the link between the skills and competences necessary to practice the occupation of tutor and the defining elements of the professional training.The output was designed taking into account the differences existing in the three countries at the level of legislation specific to the field, at the same time taking into account the models and competences to acquire, which also differ in Germany, Romania or Hungary.
The project is addressed to tutors / mentors who guide the activity of students in police education during the internship. Tutors trained on the basis of this project of qualification standard, will become instructors with validated intrinsic and professional value, acquiring those qualities, skills and attitudes necessary to guide students during on-the-job learning. The police education institutions and the structures within the national polices responsible for the training of the policemen will thus have the necessary normative framework for the organization of the tutors' training courses. Another target group is also the police units where the tutors are hired, as beneficiaries of a category of well-trained tutor policemen.
In order to ensure the acquisition / improvement by the tutors of the skills necessary to carry out the tutoring activity, within a dedicated professional training program and correlated with both the requirements of the police system and the objectives of the internship, the partner institutions started from the "professional profile" of the tutor for the internship. This professional profile includes the basic elements of the occupation/activity, namely: duties, tasks, responsibilities, skills, personal traits, training/qualification requirements (conditions of access to training, level, methods, duration) and practical experience required to become a tutor.
The project identified those skills necessary and desirable for the tutor, effectively presenting the traced contents of the qualification, by using the European competence categories - the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). The qualification for internship tutors is derived from the profile requirements specified in O1 - Basic elements of the occupational standard for tutors, and from the tasks, responsibilities and competences described there, and is assigned to level 5 of the EQF, taking into account the national qualifications frameworks from GE, RO and HU.
The output opens with an introduction explaining its necessity and usefulness, how it was developed starting from the previous intellectual product, how it can be accessed on Trident Platform. A presentation of the EQF follows, in which learning outcomes are represented in the eight reference levels, ranging from daily skills (level 1) to doctoral level (level 8). Following the analysis in the expert groups, it was established that the qualification for practice tutors corresponds to level 5. The project was designed on four units of learning outcome organised on the structure within the national qualifications framework in the form of knowledge, skills and attitudes/responsibilities.
The first unit of learning outcomes FUNDAMENTALS OF TUTORS covers the basic elements of the activity as a professional tutor. This includes competencies in the basics, contents and processes of police training, planning and organizing the internship, management of the student's activity at the internship unit as well as monitoring and evaluation of the student during the internship.
The second unit of learning outcomes, APPLYING PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE, takes into account the competences in applied pedagogy that include the basis of adult education, the didactic design of the internship, the development of students' demand-oriented competences, the documentation of the internship as well as the communication with the educational institution.
THE APPLICATION OF DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE, the third unit of learning outcomes, includes skills to use digital tools in student education, the use of educational platforms as well as police information systems. The leadership, communication and other diversity competences that are essential for the professional performance of the role of tutor are included in the fourth unit of learning outcomes,
PROFESSIONALISM. The output responds to the need for unitary training of tutors/mentors, correlated with institutional needs and labour market requirements, based on a study program adapted to the activities, tasks and responsibilities specific to internship tutors.
Starting from this common framework, the Hungarian and the Romanian partners have separately elaborated their own specific standard, respecting the formal and content conditions, specific to the national legislation, a project that corresponds to their own level of interest. In this respect, the partners selected those knowledge, skills and attitudes/responsibilities that they considered desirable in their own project of professional training standard, developed in accordance with the specific legislation, the identified needs and the particular elements.
O2 has been developed in the three languages of the project partners, as well as in English. In its elaboration were engaged experts from the partner institutions (management staff, teaching staff, technicians).