Difficulty Aspects of the Vocational Education and Training

• Published in: TEM Journal Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 3259 - 3265
• Main Authors: Hašková, Alena, Danko, Florián, Pavera, Libor, Sałata, Elżbieta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Novi Pazar UIKTEN - Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science 01.11.2024
• Subjects: Colleges & universities; Education and training; Questions; Students; Teaching; Teaching methods; requirements; motivation of students; Technical subjects; vocational education and training; difficulty of teaching
• ISSN: 2217-8309; 2217-8333
• DOI: 10.18421/TEM134-60

The paper presents results of a study the aim of which was to find out what causes difficulty in teaching technical subjects at upper secondary schools. For this purpose, a panel discussion was held with 20 selected staff members of two schools. The task of the panellists was to answer three questions: what are causes of difficulties in teaching technical subjects; what are the effective ways of motivating students to study technical subjects and how is it possible to maintain the motivation of students for a longer period of time; hence, what makes it possible to attract the attention of students more significantly in the teaching of technical subjects. The discussion was led by 3 moderators, university teachers from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. As it resulted from about 45-minute discussion of each of the stated questions, the main difficulty of technical subjects teaching is lack of students´ motivation what is partially caused by the way in which the students are assessed, and partially linked with the need to replace verbal teaching methods by other ones.