MODEL OF SUPPLEMENTARY PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AT THE SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Year 2017, Volume: 7 , 231 - 234, 08.09.2017

Lubica Vaskova Dagmar Ruskova

Abstract

Paper analyses
the model of training of technical subjects’ secondary school teachers,
graduates from technical universities, from the viewpoint of content focus and
proportionality of individual subjects in the supplementary pedagogical study.
The Slovak University of Technology by providing supplementary pedagogical
study satisfies the requirements of secondary schools to obtain highly
qualified specialists- teachers of technical subjects. Candidates for
supplementary pedagogical study have a deep knowledge of the main disciplines
content of their branch. Candidates are therefore full- valued graduates of
technical universities (having the title Master of Science-MSc), who have
completed the second degree of university technical education. They are
graduates of the following faculties: Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Civil
Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Food
technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Information technology, Faculty of Informatics and Information
technologies. In the accredited model of supplementary pedagogical education
are dominant those studying subjects which are not part of study programs of
graduates of technical universities and which are necessary for
pedagogical-psychological and didactic erudition of teachers in teaching
practice. Graduate acquires the adequate teaching competencies – the ability to
design, implement, manage and organize the work in class and to create a
positive climate, to diagnose students’ abilities. Graduate gains the
possibility to self-reflection, can participate in the elaboration of
educational materials for teaching practice, is familiar with educational
technology and ICT development in the didactics in the relevant field. Graduate
of supplementary pedagogical education is completely prepared and qualified to
perform the teaching profession of technical subjects at secondary schools
–ISCED 3 and 4.

Keywords

Supplementary pedagogical education, pedagogy, psychology, didactic

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