The Effective of Training Program for the Development of Knowledge about the National Professional Standards among the Teachers of Secondary Vocational Education in Jordan

Mufadi Al-Momani

doi:10.5539/ies.v11n8p110

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effective of training program for the development of knowledge about the national professional standards among the teachers of secondary vocational education in Jordan. The researcher prepared an accumulated test about the knowledge of national professional standards, include (42) questions spread over seven areas (education philosophy, teaching planning, teaching implementation, students’ learning assessment, teacher self-growth, profession values and ethics, and academic and technological knowledge) and for each area six paragraphs. Study members consist of (67) vocational schools’ teachers at the directorate of education of Irbid first area, at the first term of the 2015/2016 school year, who were selected at the available way, where the single group design was used by implementing the accumulated test backwards (pilot study) on the study members to identify their weaknesses, build the proposed training program according to the results, and then implement this program on the study members for two weeks, and finally implement the accumulated test forward by using the T-test for single group. The study results showed a statistically significant difference at the level (α = 0.05) between the backward and forward arithmetic means of study members performance on the national professional development standards knowledge improvement test as a whole, and for each area due to the proposed training program, which means the existence of effectiveness for the proposed training program in knowledge development about the national professional development standards at the vocational educational teachers, where this effectiveness ranged between (medium) and (very strong).

Highlights

Education becomes something undeniable; it’s a vital engine for various businesses, it’s a human right, an essential tool to achieve the sustainable development, and a need to develop the economy and life in its various economical, vital, and social paths
The development of vocational education and training systems started in the early 1970s, in terms of the policies, objectives, programs, structures, patterns, and levels, where this type of education and training is relatively new compared with the other educational systems and the majority of Arabic countries were paying attention mostly to the public education at the expense of vocational education (Matar, 2008)
This study can benefit the teachers by introducing a training program suitable for implementation, get the attention of vocational education supervisors and teachers, at the secondary level to the importance of using proposed professional and vocational programs, and this current study provides Arabic language teachers with theoretical information about the training program and its components, its implementation mechanisms, and how to procedurally implement it, which may lead to develop the learners level in learning the vocational concepts

Summary

Introduction

Education becomes something undeniable; it’s a vital engine for various businesses, it’s a human right, an essential tool to achieve the sustainable development, and a need to develop the economy and life in its various economical, vital, and social paths. It’s an educational and training process that adopted by the educational institutions to increase the effectiveness of individual in all areas of social and economical life, and increase the scientific and technological development, which seen through the fields of production and development (Al-Quran, 2009) It seeks to gain individuals the technical and behavioral skills to meet the labor market needs, develop their production capacity, increase their work perfection, and provide the labor market with the manual skills and the appropriate scientific and practical competencies, which help to face the structural imbalance between supply and demand in the labor markets, and may lead to increase the self-confidence, improve the job satisfaction, and the beneficiaries satisfaction of production (Halabi, 2012).

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