this project is financed by the european union and the republic of turkey

This project is financed by the European Union and the Republic of Turkey.

TRAINING TEACHERS FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

AND TRAINING

Prof. Dr. Mustafa SAFRAN


In an era in which communication, transportation and globalization are rapidly being disseminated, international trends should be taken into consideration, while analysing the problems of vocational education and training at national level and making plans for the future.


One of the main objectives of vocational education and training is to train necessary human resources to ensure that a country will reach its predetermined economic, social and cultural targets.


Source: Turkish Statistical Institute

POPULATION - AGE PYRAMID OF TURKEY (2012)


Number of the Higher Education Graduates from the Fields of Engineering - Manufacturing -

Construction (2011)

Source: EurostatTürkiye Romanya Çek Cumh. Macaristan Bulgaristan

0

50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000

350,000

400,000

398,796

175,310

61,377 56,911 53,680


Change in the Employment Rates Compared to Previous Year

(In Thousands)2012 January – July

2013 January - July

Change

Agriculture 6.003 6.012 9

Industry 4.740 4.969 229

Construction 1.629 1.728 99

Services 12.144 12.746 602

IN TOTAL 24.517 25.455 939


XVI. National Education Council(13-17 November 1999)

Agenda of the Council- Restructuring of the vocational education and training mainly

within the integrity of the secondary education system- Vocational education in the schools and businesses, and

employment- Training teachers and managers for vocational education

and training field- Progression to the higher education in the vocational

education and training without having exam- Financing in vocational education and training


XVI. National Education Council Decisions(Training Teachers and Managers for Vocational

Education and Training Field)2. Considering the country's need for manpower by making cooperation with the relevant sectors:a. Educational institutions should be established,b. Needs of the teachers should be determined in terms of

quantity and quality,c. Short and long-term plans should be made for meeting

the needs,d. And the cooperation and coordination among the

Ministry, Council of Higher Education and the relevant institutions and organizations should be made permanent.


XVI. National Education Council Decisions

(Training Teachers and Managers for Vocational Education and Training Field)

3. High school grade point average and additional point practices should continue in transferring students to the teaching programmes that are considered as the follow-up of their equivalent programmes in vocational high schools.




5. With regard to the selection of the students, knowledge, skills, and an aptitude test, required for being a branch teacher, should be performed.




8. It should be encouraged that the prospective teachers to work in the vocational and technical high schools are selected among the students who complete the relevant fields of the vocational schools and are trained after being vertically transferred to the faculties of vocational education and training.




11. Schedules of the faculties of vocational education and training should be revised in a way to train teachers that think, investigate, question, make analyses and syntheses and efficiently use the changing technology, opportunities and resources, instead of those who learn by the rote-education system.




15. Training and education schedules of the vocational high schools and the faculties of vocational education and training should be made compatible with each other and with the business life.




16. Training and education schedules should be prepared in order to eliminate the differences for the student that will transfer to the teaching programmes from different fields.




17. Professional teaching knowledge lessons instructed in the faculties that are training teachers for the vocational schools are not in compliance with the job the prospective teachers will perform. Therefore, professional teaching knowledge lessons of these faculties should be revised by consulting to the relevant faculties.




19. In order to train qualified teachers for vocational education and training schools and to balance between the supply and demand, teaching programmes should be offered in post-graduate level for the fields that are deemed necessary.




20. A graduate tracking system should be established in the faculties of vocational education and training, and the training and education programmes should always be improved by taking the tracking results into account.




22. Course load of the instructors and the students of the faculties of vocational education and training should be brought into conformity with the practices of the modern universities.




24. The people who gathered experience by working in the work places and have proven themselves in the market should be included in the teaching staff of the faculties of vocational education and training and VET schools.




25. Faculties of vocational education and training should be improved in terms of their premises, equipment and staff.




30. Employment of supernumerary teachers should be prevented by allocating teaching staff for the schools on the basis of the branches and according to need.




37. Legal regulations that will allow teachers to establish unions should be made in order to safeguard and improve common professional values of the teachers.




39. Qualifications held by the qualified instructors should be enhanced and their salaries should be made in conformity with their qualifications.


With an administrative decision taken by the Council of Higher Education (YOK) and the Council of Ministers in 2009, the policies concerning training of the teachers in the field of vocational education and training in Turkey were changed once again. The faculties of vocational education and training, which accepted students for the last time in 2009 and will continue to operate until their existing students have graduated, will vanish for good.


While the closed Faculties of Technical Education are converted into the Faculties of Technology, some of the Faculties of Vocational Education will carry on offering training as the Faculties of Art and Design.


An "Institute of Vocational Education and Training" may be established. The Institute of Vocational Education and Training can choose its students from the graduates of the relevant faculties and train sufficient number of technical instructors and teaching assistants holding the qualifications needed by the secondary schools that offer vocational education and training.


Thank You

Prof. Dr. Mustafa SAFRAN

this project is financed by the european union and the republic of turkey

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