Language and information technology school, translation office

Glossa Ltd. has cooperated with the Cantonal Job Placement Offices (URC) since 1992, with the Active Measures Office (UMA) in Bellinzona since 1997, and with Disability Insurance (AI) since 2009.

COURSES FOR THE DISABLED AND THE UNEMPLOYED

We hold individual and group courses for the unemployed and those with health impairments. We do our best to respond to the students’ needs, as well as taking into account the requirements of the job placement consultants. By adapting programmes and goals to the individual person or group, we facilitate reintegration into the job market and a successful return to social life.

Glossa language school is part of the ELP (European Language Portfolio) and successfully applies their teaching methods and assessment criteria. The school participated in a cantonal scheme identifying German language abilities and pre-existing knowledge of people entering the job-market from 2001-2005.

Our school has no influence over dates and schedules of courses payed for by the canton, nor on the number of participants and the distribution of language levels inside groups, as those depend on the decisions taken by the cantonal authorities. The school is obliged to inform those authorities on the progress, potential problems and results of the course.

COURSES FOR MIGRANTS

Our potential trainees may have different needs: integration into professional and social life, gaining access to employment, learning a language, managing everyday life, acquiring the necessary knowledge of civic and general culture of the host country.
At the beginning of each course we take into account the overall profile of the participants, as well as their skills, training and work experience, in order to optimize the necessary learning objectives and strategies. Before undertaking the course and in addition to the placement test we ask all our participants to fill out a document profiling their existing linguistic abilities.
The objectives of the training can be of a general, concrete, specific and diverse nature. The exact linguistic objectives are based on the PEL’s (European Language Portfolio) guidelines.
Our teaching methodology corresponds to our pedagogical and andragogic principles. By letting our students work in groups or with teachers, we try to encourage them to interact with each other culturally.

COURSES FOR MIGRANT MOTHERS WITH SMALL CHILDREN

Thanks to the course, the child will be able to understand familiar and everyday expressions, simple and short instructions and advice, as well as reading texts with the vocabulary taught in class, and to get to terms with short and clearly formulated messages from radio and TV.
Furthermore, the child will be able to communicate in a simple but clear manner, to answer everyday questions and to ask similar ones outside the classroom, to talk about the topics discussed there and to use expressions and sentences describing familiar people and environments.

COURSES CALENDAR – PIC2

TEMP TRAINING

Fund for continuing education of the temporary recruitment sector.
For further information, please consult: www.temptraining.ch