Assessing Professional Knowledge of Teachers at Vocational Schools–Using the Example of a Professional Development for Automation and Digitized Production

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-154
Author(s):  
Pia Schäfer ◽  
Link Nico ◽  
Felix Walker
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Vocational Schools

Deconstructing Professionalism

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Tummons
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Uk

The problematisation of the professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector tends to focus on the discourses that the standards embody: discourses that are posited as being based on a restricted or technicist model of professionalism, that fail sufficiently to recognise the lived experiences of teachers within the sector both in terms of professional knowledge and competences, and professional development. This paper takes a different approach, drawing on a branch of material semiotics – actor-network theory – in order to shift the locus of problematisation away from what the standards might mean, to how the standards are physically assembled or instantiated. The paper concludes by suggesting that a first point of problematisation rests not in the discourses that the standards embody, but in the inherent fragilities of any material artefact that has the intention of carrying meaning across spatial, institutional or temporal boundaries.

scholarly journals THE DYNAMICS OF THE SUBSTANTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VALUE-MOTIVATIONAL COMPONENT OF STUDENTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL READINESS FOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY AT VARIOUS STAGES OF STUDYING AT THE UNIVERSITY

2016 ◽  
pp. 120-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. S. Morozova ◽  
E. V. Voronova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
First Year ◽  
Life Meaning ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Semantic Component ◽  
The University

The paper discusses the problem of studying the relations of substantive characteristics of the value-semantic component of students’ psychological readiness for professional activity at various stages of studying at the Universityand presents the results of a longitudinal study of this issue. The results of the study indicated that the content characteristics (objective, process, result, overall rate of life-meaning orientations) are the basis of the value-motivational component of students’ psychological readiness for professional activity at various stages of studying at the University. According to the results of the study the axiological component of students’ psychological readiness of for professional activity into which first-year students includes orientation to the professional knowledge, skills. Students have 2 years of training to increase the value of the chosen profession, the desire to become a professional. In the 3rd year students’ valuemotivational component is represented in the experience of the crisis of professional development. In their 4th year of study, students have changing views about their professional future, orientation to future professional development.

Contrasting Professional Development and Continuing Education Opportunities for Library Professionals

2014 ◽  
pp. 1909-1927
Author(s):  
Agnes K. Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Professional Involvement ◽  
Economic Downturns ◽  
Library Professionals

By design or not, most librarians restrict their professional organization involvement to professional librarian organizations. Limiting professional involvement to only library related organizations will not provide the depth of professional knowledge that today's librarian needs to have in order to keep up with the requirements of the profession. Library budgets and funding have been slashed due to economic downturns, and patrons are turning to libraries for assistance with a variety of concerns that libraries did not have to address in previous times. Reaching beyond the scope of the profession, librarians can broaden their knowledge base and use that broader knowledge base to benefit their patrons and communities.

scholarly journals Empowering Education: Exploring Teachers’ Classroom Practices in Vocational Schools

AL-TA LIM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139
Author(s):  
Teuku Zulfikar ◽  
Emawati Emawati ◽  
Hidayat Al-Azmi
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Classroom Research ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

Teaching is indeed a complex provision, which requires teachers being competent in many respects. They should be very knowledgeable in subjects they teach; they should also acquire skills in transferring their subject matters; they need to be skillful in classroom management, and are capable of designing and developing teaching materials. For that reasons, teachers should always engage in professional development to guarantee their best performance. Understanding teachers’ ways of classroom practices is the first step for teachers’ professional development. Therefore, it is timely to conduct a classroom research to explore teachers’ performance, and thus this research explored teachers’ classroom practices in six vocational schools in Aceh. The data was collected mainly through observation of the instructional process in the classroom and in the workshop. The research found several effective attributes of teachers, such as creative, interactive, democratic, intelligent, smart, and well-prepared teachers. The study also identified ‘negative’ teachers’ attributes, such as authoritative, dominated, and withdrawn teachers.

scholarly journals Introducing continuing professional development

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sims
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Postgraduate Training ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Standards Of Practice ◽  
High Standards

Most professions have recently realised that basic undergraduate and postgraduate training is not enough to maintain high standards of practice throughout a long career. Continuing professional development (CPD) has become a feature therefore of the working life of these professions, and medicine, which was in the forefront for undergraduate and postgraduate education, has somewhat lagged behind in this. The failure of consultants to keep up to date in their professional knowledge and attitudes is clearly detrimental to patients, to the doctors themselves, and to the Health Service.

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