Solihull College & University Centre’s Competition Lead and Quality Coach, Katie Miller, has been chosen as one of only 14 people from across the UK to take part in an intense trainer programme after undergoing a rigorous selection process.
Katie was delighted to take part and bring the skills back to college to help its students. She commented: “It was so great to receive this training. I am now able to coach our staff to see a bigger perspective when it comes to encouraging and inspiring our students to be the best they can be.”
The WorldSkills Endorsed Trainer Programme sets out to get more students fine tuning their skills, having the confidence to excel and take part in competitions.
Aims of the training included helping students to aspire and aim for more, how to stretch learners, breaking down the skill element into small parts to excel, learning soft skills which will make students more attractive to employers, and mindset development to help build student resilience.
Katie continued: “We want to show students how to be confident and more resilient and sometimes that can come down to marginal gains. Seeing those tiny improvements can make massive changes to a student’s outlook. It’s our job to help bring that out of them and this training will be critical to that.
“The training didn’t just focus on students being competitive, it was about teasing the excellence out of every student, helping them feel more confident and resilient. For some students, that involves the competition element, for others, it’s just about making those marginal gains to make a big difference.”
WorldSkills UK is a four nations partnership between education, industry and UK governments. It works to help the UK become a ‘skills economy’, boosting the prestige of technical and professional education by embedding world-class training standards across the UK to help drive investment, jobs and economic growth.
