The A-B-C of The Teaching and Learning of the Middle Level Cycle “Pharmacy and Parapharmacy Technician” in Vocational Education

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.

Keywords

• vocational education
• vocational education and training (VET)
• pharmacy
• professional skills
• laboratory procedures
• dealing with customers