The Development Of Vocaltional And Life Skills Training For Orphans Competency

Abstract

This development research aims to design a model of vocational and life skills training (VLST) with effective, valid, and practical tools. It can be an alternative for improving training quality especially for orphanages in Makassar. Various of training implemented were quite disappointing based on World Economic Forum 2014 which shows Indonesia’s competitiveness in 2014-2015 positioned in rank 34 of 144 countries around the world with the most issues of education and training (Republika 2014:1). This vocational and life skills training model was developed by adapting Borg and Gall (2003) model with four stages, such as (a) research and information collecting; (b) planning and development of preliminary form of product; (c) operational field testing; and (d) dissemination and implementation. The samples of of the research are the participants from orphanages in Makassar. Procedure of collectiong data was conducted by (a) observation; (b) interviews; (c) documentation; and (d) test of competence. The products resulted by this research is manual book and module of VLST which validated and tried by experts for its practical and effectiveness. Descriptive analysis of qualitative research was used to analyze the data result of practical and effective training in increasing orphans’ skill competence.