Todor Kableshkov Higher School of Transport TR/05/B/F/PP/ MODULAR TE Questionnaires results presentation

Activity and common results of Questionnaires filling Total users – about 90 persons/professionals in Technology training at High and Higher Schools (Universities)  Sent s to all users – 4- 5 letters;  Personal to single users for additional explanations – about 15 letters;  Additional filled questionnaires after personal explanations – 2 – 3 questionnaires/2%;  Fully filled questionnaires – 17 / 19%  Not fully filled questionnaires – 2 questionnaires/12% from filled (31 of May 2006);

Questionnaires results Practice 1-Technology Education activities should be primarily conducted in classroom environment instead of workshop environment.

Questionnaires results Practice 2-Technology awareness and technology literacy acquisitions, which are of the teaching functions of Technology Education, should not be seen possible through traditional work training programs.

Questionnaires results Practice 3-Technology Education should be considered to be part of general education in its existing application manner

Questionnaires results Practice 4-Technology Education should not be conducted without applications based on the projects where knowledge is transformed into practice.

Questionnaires results Practice 5-Technology Education should be conducted in an understanding focused on visual arts.

Questionnaires results Practice 6-Technology Education should be given only in primary education, instead of giving it in pre-school, secondary and higher education.

Questionnaires results Practice 7-Studies that introduce the vocations included in Technology Education should be performed by guidance and psychological consultants, instead of Technology Education teachers.

Questionnaires results Practice 8-Two hours of course a week are enough for teaching processes at primary education level of Technology Education.

Questionnaires results Practice 9-Technology Education and computer training should be given in the processes that complement one another.

Questionnaires results Practice 10-Technology Education should not be related only with electronic equipment such as computers and their applications.

Questionnaires results Practice 11-Technology Education should be performed by more than one teacher in primary education, as it contains different branches of knowledge.

Questionnaires results Practice 12-Classroom environments are sufficient to achieve training acquisitions targeted by Technology Education.

Questionnaires results Practice 13-Technology Education is conducted far away from its function which introduces the qualities of working life.

Questionnaires results Practice 14-Technology Education should be conducted in a manner to cover primary education, secondary education and higher education as well, starting from pre-school period, in an understanding and process continuing lifetime.

Questionnaires results Practice 15-Though Technology Education contains different branches of knowledge, it should be conducted by uniform teachers.

Questionnaires results Method 1-Technology Education should be conducted focused on a structuralise teaching approach.

Questionnaires results Method 2-General quality small vocational practices, in addition to knowledge, should also be included in Technology Education to bring forth vocational interests and talents of the students.

Questionnaires results Method 3-Technology Education should concentrate on cooperative learning.

Questionnaires results Method 4-Technology Education should include project studies which could be performed both individually and in groups.

Questionnaires results Method 5-Technology Education should include trip and observation activities to ensure integrity between the school and the environment.

Questionnaires results Method 6-Technology Education should include designing, obtaining numerical results, preparing graphics and teaching procedures.

Questionnaires results Method 7-Technology Education should stress on using the communication language of technical drawing.

Questionnaires results Method 8-Technology Education should include cost determination studies.

Questionnaires results Method 9-In Technology Education, survey trips should be organized in order to observe vocational developments in site.

Questionnaires results Method 10-In order to be informed of technologies, all kinds of machines, models, products, projects and parts, which ensure that technology is known better, should be brought to school or their similar should be examined.

Questionnaires results Method 11-In Technology Education, in order to be able to participate in the technological process, the applications which provide interaction among the school, working life, and the environment should be directed from the classroom to the society and working life.

Questionnaires results Method 12-In Technology Education, in order to develop technological information and skills, not only oral expressions should be used, but also making graphics, technical drawings, diagrams, plans,projects and designs should be focused on, in teaching and learning processes.

Questionnaires results Method 13-In Technology Education, in order to be able to use problem-solving methods effectively, students should be given exercises where they could use their own individual designing, planning and application capabilities, instead of giving them problems with solutions.

Questionnaires results Method 14-In Technology Education, practical subjects such as the discovery of electricity, its generation, its illuminating and heating effects, calculating electric power (watt) cost etc. should be taught.

Questionnaires results Vocational Guidance 1-Within the scope of Technology Education, business trips should be organized for vocational guidance.

Questionnaires results Vocational Guidance 2-Within the scope of Technology Education, conferences introducing vocational fields should be organized for vocational guidance.

Questionnaires results Vocational Guidance 3-Within the scope of Technology Education, vocational working environments and conditions should be introduced for vocational guidance.

Questionnaires results Vocational Guidance 4-Within the scope of Technology Education, vocation- related jobs and works should be introduced by means of professionals to be invited to school for vocational guidance.

Questionnaires results Vocational Guidance 5-Within the scope of Technology Education, guidance files related with physical and intellectual development of the students should be prepared for vocational guidance.

Questionnaires results Vocational Guidance 6-Within the scope of Technology Education, for vocational guidance, students should be requested to select one of the jobs from a given job list and to defend it based on grounds in an approach that “every job is important”.

Questionnaires results Vocational Guidance 7-Within the scope of Technology Education, for vocational guidance, students should be taught in practice how they should act in front of events which may be encountered in real life, such as application for a job, request for electricity or telephone connections etc.

Questionnaires results Vocational Guidance 8-Within the scope of Technology Education, for vocational guidance, types of interests which would allow the students to know their own fields of interest should be determined in an approach of

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 1-The development process of technology should be included in Technology Education for adaptation to industry.

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 2-Within the scope of Technology Education, industry- focused training courses should be given to provide adaptation to industry.

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 3-Within the scope of Technology Education, a reciprocal training interaction should be established between small and medium-size industrial enterprises and Faculties of Education for adaptation to industry.

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 4-Within the scope of Technology Education, educational processes intended for acquiring general technologic information, skills and attitudes should be followed for adaptation to industry.

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 5-Within the scope of Technology Education, a current and live information center, introducing possibilities and conditions of employment in industry, focused on “technology education and its industrial connection” should be established over Internet, for adaptation to industry.

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 6-Within the scope of Technology Education, studies related with industrial products quality certificates should be conducted to facilitate adaptation to industry

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 7-Within the scope of Technology Education, studies focused on industrial vocational standards should be conducted to facilitate adaptation to industry.

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 8-In Technology Education, studies introducing changes in production systems should be conducted.

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 9-In order to adapt Technology Education to industry, coordinated contributions by labour-employer organizations, industrial establishments and educational institutions should be provided.

Questionnaires results Adaptation To Industry 10-In order to adapt Technology Education to industry, it should be ensured that school is integrated into industry and working life.

Questionnaires results Teacher 1-A Technology Education teacher should have sufficient knowledge and experience in various subjects, such as science, math, energy, production, technical drawing etc.

Questionnaires results Teacher 2-A Technology Education teacher should be familiar with cultural, social and economical effects of information technologies.

Questionnaires results Teacher 3-A Technology Education teacher should stress on project management in teaching processes, as a basis of understanding technology.

Questionnaires results Teacher 4-A Technology Education teacher should stress on project management in teaching processes, which would transform the knowledge into works, products and services by means of project studies confirming to the fields of interest of the students and to the real life, as a basis of understanding technology.

Questionnaires results Teacher 5-A Technology Education teacher should encourage students to be autonomous and entrepreneur by means of production activities.

Questionnaires results Teacher 6-A Technology Education teacher should prepare a medium to take advantage of other disciplinary fields (such as science, math, technical drawing etc.) in educational operations such as calculating, obtaining numerical conclusions, drawing and writing grounds in project studies.

Questionnaires results Teacher 7-A Technology Education teacher should know the principles of planning, placing and arranging physical rooms such as workshops, labs, offices etc. related with technological training.

Questionnaires results Teacher 8-A Technology Education teacher should cause the students to conduct studies that develop their vocational skills and attitudes for the purpose of improving their individual work abilities and their self-confidence.

Questionnaires results Teacher 9-A Technology Education teacher should cause students to perform workshop practices based on technology, instead of classroom studies in acquiring self-confidence,self-control, sensitivity, responsibility and group-relation properties.

Questionnaires results Teacher 10-A Technology Education teacher should prepare two and three-dimension visual materials, such as graphics, designs, photos, pictures, posters etc., intended for training in teaching processes.

Questionnaires results Teacher 11-A Technology Education teacher should introduce technological developments, by giving examples of publications and products.

Questionnaires results Teacher 12-A Technology Education teacher should use tables, instead of desks according to group works in classroom and workshop environments.

Questionnaires results Teacher 13-A Technology Education teacher should apply a “U” order in classroom placement so as the teacher’s table to be in the middle and students’ desks to be around it, in order to facilitate that the students interact and communicate face to face with one another and with the teacher.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 1-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain a field of learning technology culture.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 2-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain a field of learning vocations.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 3-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain a field of learning project studies.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 4-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain a field of learning production activities.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 5-In raising a Technology Education teacher, a program focused on industrial technology and design should be followed.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 6-In raising a Technology Education teacher, an artistic dimension should be included as well as a technological understanding.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 7-A Technology Education program should be designed in knowledge, skills and attitudes dimensions.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 8-A Technology Education program should be focused on acquiring technological culture.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 9-A Technology Education program should give special importance on introducing vocational fields.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 10-A Technology Education program should be supported by project studies to be selected according to students’ fields of interest and their talents.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 11-A Technology Education program should include general production studies directed to acquiring vocational knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 12-A Technology Education program should be designed from interdisciplinary subjects, based on scientific principles.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 13-A Technology Education program should be designed so as to include scientific, social, educational, cultural and economical effects of technology.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 14-A Technology Education program should handle individual, social and industrialization relations of technology and it should introduce working life.

Questionnaires results Teacher Training 15-A Technology Education program should be based on introducing and using new Technologies in teaching, learning and evaluation processes.

Questionnaires results Program 1-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Electric-Electronic".

Questionnaires results Program 2-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Computer ".

Questionnaires results Program 3-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Control ".

Questionnaires results Program 4-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Energy"

Questionnaires results Program 5-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Construction".

Questionnaires results Program 6-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Wood Working".

Questionnaires results Program 7-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Metal".

Questionnaires results Program 8-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Machine".

Questionnaires results Program 9-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Plastic".

Questionnaires results Program 10-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Graphic".

Questionnaires results Program 11-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Ceramic".

Questionnaires results Program 12-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Textile".

Questionnaires results Program 13-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Transport".

Questionnaires results Program 14-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Nourishment".

Questionnaires results Program 15-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Financing".

Questionnaires results Program 16-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Mechatronic".

Questionnaires results Program 17-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Automotive".

Questionnaires results Program 18-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Environment".

Questionnaires results Program 19-A Technology Education teacher raising program should contain fields of learning "Journalism".

Questionnaires Comments  Although the considerable diversity of professionals that took part in investigation, remarkable grouping of opinions is observed;  The causes for that coincidence: the participants in investigation like current system of training, they think it is useful for Bulgarian conditions of technology teachers training.

Questionnaires Comments  The causes for noticed divergences: some of the questions are not closely connected to Bulgarian system of technology teachers training, difference in the terms that are used in Bulgaria.

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