Abstract
The author briefly describes the main purpose of this certificate course, one of the options in vocational training offered by the public education system in Spain. It then gives details about the pedagogical approaches currently being applied in this course as well as the role of language in class and the benefits of using a foreign language instead of the students’ L1. She also gives examples of projects, quality learning tasks and techniques that might be useful to other teachers of vocational courses.
Highlights
Pharmacy and Parapharmacy aims to prepare students of all ages to work at a community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, parapharmacy or pharmaceutical distributor
Personal and social competencies are highly important, and often constitute the main challenges of the course. This is because the previously mentioned professional competencies require basic attributes such as punctuality and the ability to work as part of a team, both of which are often lacking in new students
The teacher should be able to design the activities that will help students acquire the competencies related to that job
Summary
Pharmacy and Parapharmacy aims to prepare students of all ages (starting at 16 years old) to work at a community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, parapharmacy or pharmaceutical distributor. The teacher should be able to design the activities that will help students acquire the competencies related to that job. Should teachers know how to perform most of the tasks undertaken at a pharmacy, but they should should master methodologies and programs that help students to achieve personal and social skills, such as problem-based learning, international programs (Erasmus plus, e-Twinning), dual FP, Service-Learning and others.
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