Every year, the DHBW of­fers dual stu­dents the op­por­tu­ni­ty to com­ple­te the training of trai­ners (the so-cal­led AdA or trai­ners’ cer­ti­fi­ca­te). A to­tal of eight stu­dents from our Trai­nee Team took the op­por­tu­ni­ty and at­ten­ded a one-week training cour­se on the to­pic of training app­ren­ti­ces in com­pa­nies.
The cour­se co­ver­ed the fol­lo­wing topics:

• Check training requirements/Plan the apprenticeship

• Prepa­re training/Recruiting

• Car­ry out training

• Com­ple­te training

This may sound a litt­le bit dry at first but the sub­ject was sup­port­ed by the re­spec­ti­ve cour­se lea­ders with many prac­ti­cal ex­amp­les and group pro­jects brought the stu­dents clo­ser in a vi­vid way.
Th­rough the ad­di­tio­nal qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on, the stu­dents now not only mas­ter the tech­ni­cal com­pe­ten­ces of their pro­fes­si­on but also ac­qui­red di­dac­tic, pe­dago­gi­cal and rhe­to­ri­cal skills that will sup­port them in their fur­ther care­ers.
In or­der to ob­tain the training cer­ti­fi­ca­te, a writ­ten as well as an oral ex­ami­na­ti­on must be ta­ken, which can eit­her be ta­ken at the Co­ope­ra­ti­ve Sta­te Uni­ver­si­ty in Mos­bach (or in a Co­ro­na-re­la­ted on­line for­mat) or di­rect­ly at the Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­mer­ce (IHK) at their re­spec­ti­ve lo­ca­ti­ons (for ex­am­p­le in Heil­bronn).
The oral ex­ami­na­ti­on can be held in the form of a pre­sen­ta­ti­on of an in­s­truc­tion con­cept. The in­s­truc­tion con­cept re­pres­ents a plan for the im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of a training unit with a trai­nee of a spe­ci­fic training oc­cu­pa­ti­on.
Our stu­dents cho­se the fol­lo­wing topics:

• Spe­ci­fy­ing, de­ve­lo­ping and test­ing an ap­pli­ca­ti­on
IT spe­cia­list for ap­pli­ca­ti­on development

• Con­ver­ting cus­to­mer re­qui­re­ments into work packa­ges
Ma­nage­ment As­sistant for Di­gi­ta­liza­ti­on Management

• De­sig­ning a web­site with CSS (Cas­ca­ding Style Sheet)
IT spe­cia­list for ap­pli­ca­ti­on development

• Re­co­gni­zing and deal­ing with phis­hing mails
IT spe­cia­list for ap­pli­ca­ti­on development

All par­ti­ci­pan­ts suc­cessful­ly pas­sed the exam and now meet the theo­re­ti­cal re­qui­re­ments for su­per­vi­sing fu­ture trai­nees and stu­dents at TecAlliance. As all gra­dua­tes are very fa­mi­li­ar with the training at TecAlliance, they can make it ea­sier for new col­le­agues to start their care­ers. In or­der to be al­lo­wed to prac­ti­ce as “real” trai­ners, all they need is the ne­ces­sa­ry pro­fes­sio­nal ex­pe­ri­ence, which they will gain in the next few years.