APL in Juvenile PrisonLeonardo da Vinci – Transfer of innovation

01-10-2009 / 01-03-2011

Co MiddelweerdtProject manager Aventus APL-Centre

Cees BakManager of Innovation

• “Movie” >> Introduction “TOI project”

• P.P. >> APL in Juvenile prison

Focus

on a very specific target group, youngsters in prison that undergo VET. There experience are interrupted or ad hoc vocations in education leading to a shortage of proved competences which makes it difficult to enter either vocational education or the labor market afterwards.

Aim

to provide them support in making a portfolio of their learning as well as to recognize the learning activities and link them to formal qualifications though APL. This should give them a better change to continue VET or start working after leaving the prison should prevent fallback into criminal behavior.

Based on

the instrument ROC Aventus and JPC De Sprengen have used during a pilot: a portfolio and APL. The project will upgrade this instruments based on experiences of others and will pilot the upgraded instrument in all participating countries.

The project

• sharing experiences on VET in prison in an international context;

• update the Dutch materials for portfolio and APL for this target group;

• adapt the materials for use in the project other countries

• pilots with portfolio and APL in the juvenile prisons

• evaluate experiences and results

• publish portfolio and APL-tools

• publish lessons learned

This project includes

Wim van de SteegSimone van der Donk(project management)

National Agency Leonardo NL

ROC AventusPromotorexpertise

Zuidemaco-ordinatorexpertise

JPC De Sprengenexpertise

CSCSexpertise

ISQexpertise

Jolanda BotkeJoris Rietman

(project management)

Co Middelweerdt(APL Centre)

Marieke Oudshoorn

CBAT Cees BakJon Dogger

Giovanni Crisona Maria Margarida Segard

Day to day project

management

Pilot APL in Prison (to be transferred)

Partners in this project

Wim van de SteegSimone van der Donk (project management)

• The largest regional VET college in the ‘Stedendriehoek’-area

• ‘ROC’ stands for ‘regional community college’

• Locations in Apeldoorn, Deventer and Zutphen

• Educational career centre for secondary vocational education and training (VET) and courses on a contract basis

• Over 200 courses, more than 17,000 students and trainees

• Large employer in the area: ca. 1,250 employees

About ROC Aventus

About JPC de Sprengen

• Juvenile prison JPC de Sprengen• Zutphen and Wapenveld (The Netherlands)• boys between 12 and 24 years old• 150 youngsters • All boys <18 receive education• boys >18 can choose for education or work

The Sprengen is one of the most modern juvenile prisons in the country with a strong desire to innovate its curriculum.

5000 minors in 10 juvenile prisons.

APL in this project

Different definitions of APL:• Accreditation of Prior Learning • Assessing Prior Learning

APL in the project:• includes formal, non formal and informal learning• is a tool to serve the youngsters in their professional career (education & work)• includes a procedure with portfolio building and some kind of valuing/assessing/certification of learning

APL in the Netherlands

Information and assignment

Intake

Collecting evidence

Accreditation of competences

APL-report

Thanks for your attention.

Co Middelweerdtc.middelweerdt@aventus.nl

Cees Bakcbat@me.com