Ulaanbaatar
TVET teachers learn sign language
Society
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. Teachers and staff of
Mongolian-Korean Polytechnic College are excited to be able to communicate with
their students who have hearing impairments, said the TVET teachers after two
weeks of basic and intermediate sign language training. In order to create inclusive
TVET for all, sign language blended training (online and classroom) was
organized within ‘Cooperative Technical and Vocational Education and Training’
(cTVET) project in cooperation with ‘Deaf Education’ NGO.
Many students with hearing impairments study at Mongolian
Korean Polytechnic College. For example, last year the computer information
technology class had a total of 13 students and 8 out of them were students
with hearing impairment. A Teacher of computer information technology, who
participated in the training, said: "I had to communicate with my students by
writing, but they usually don’t know technical words in written form. Also,
their writing skills are not as well as their sign language. Being able to use
sign language, I am happy that it will enable me to communicate with all my
students more freely and provide quality training to all. I have met and
demonstrated the sign language I have learned to a graduate from my class. He
was very pleased to see I could sign and motivated me to learn further."
The cTVET project implements activities to improve the accessibility
of TVET institutions and to capacitate school staff and teachers to provide
inclusive training.
Commissioned by the BMZ, the cTVET project is funded by the
Governments of Germany, Australia, Korea and being implemented by Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in close partnership with
Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.
Source: GIZ Mongolei
