Improvement of Pre-service Teachers’ Professional Competencies Using DAPOA Project-Based Learning

Abstract

The research objective aims to improve the pre-service teachers’ professional competencies using the project-based DAPOA learning model for engineering education. The project-based learning model is important to encourage learners to have knowledge skills and attitude in professional occupation consistent to the 21st century learning skills. The important learning skills consist of life and career skills, learning and innovation skills, information media and technology skills. Moreover, in educating technology and engineering, active learning is necessary to promote students to have essential skills in industry and education sectors. The developed project-based DAPOA learning model is an active learning that can encourage students to have knowledge and skills by searching, working in team, problem solving, communicating and etc. In this paper, the improvement of the teachers’ professional competencies using the project-based learning for developing pre-service teachers was proposed and the efficiency of learning and teaching management and internship was evaluated.