Supporting Students in Placement

Workshop on Supporting Students in Placement with Coaching Skills
Date and Time	Venue	Facilitator	No. of Places
20 March 2017 (Monday) 2:00pm–5:00pm	Rm 1107, 11/F, VTC Tower, 27 Wood Road, Wan Chai	Ms Elaine Chow (Registered Industrial-Organisational Psychologist) Training Consultant of Vital Employee Service Consultant	30
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29 March 2017 (Wednesday) 9:30am–12:30pm	Rm 1107, 11/F, VTC Tower, 27 Wood Road, Wan Chai		30

Medium of Instruction

Chinese (Cantonese) supplemented with English terms

Target Participants

Academic and teaching staff from vocational and professional education and training (VPET) institutions and higher education institutions, VPET workplace mentors, VPET stakeholders and interested members of the public are welcome.

Free admission

Workshop Outline

Placement provides a valuable opportunity for students in vocational and professional education and training (VPET) to gain practical workplace experience and enrich their learning experiences. Nonetheless, students are freshmen in the workplace and they may encounter different challenges. How could VPET teachers support their students during placement? This workshop will discuss the needs of placement students, introduce a coaching model and coaching skills; and explore how VPET teachers could support and supervise placement students with success.

On completion of this workshop, the participants would be able to:

• describe the characteristics and needs of placement students;
• explain the GROW coaching model and coaching skills; and
• discuss the application of coaching model in supporting and supervising the placement students.

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