ERIC Number: ED264367
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Feb
Pages: 154
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Manitoba Business and Vocational/Industrial Secondary Teachers' Responses to Updating of Their Professional/Technical Skills and Knowledge. [Section 2.]
Porozny, George H.; Cap, Orest
This document, section 2 of a three-part study, reports on an effort to determine willingness of business and vocational/industrial teachers in Manitoba to update their professional skills and knowledge. One hundred sixty-three (out of 244) teachers sent usable returns to a survey to determine the extent to which they have obtained updating experiences, teachers' obligations to update, preferences for time and frequency of updating, incentives, and the importance of selected institutions/methods. Findings showed 70 percent of business teachers and 92 percent of vocational/industrial teachers had completed work experience before commencing teacher education programs. Fifty-nine percent of the teachers indicated no business and industrial work experience since beginning teaching. Almost two-thirds said work experience was valuable since it helped them become more effective teachers. Eighty-eight percent felt a professional obligation to update skills and knowledge continually; one-third of that group maintained that updating should occur at least yearly. Educational leave with guaranteed position/salary and school inservice days were recommended as times for updating. A majority supported voluntary updating for retention of teaching certificates, with educational leave and credit towards a degree/certificate as major incentives. Industry- and business-sponsored programs for updating were strongly supported. (Appendixes include instruments and teacher comments.) (YLB)
Descriptors: Business Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Improvement Programs, Inservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Retraining, Secondary Education, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Improvement, Trade and Industrial Teachers, Vocational Education Teachers
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Manitoba Teachers' Society, Winnipeg.; Manitoba Univ., Winnipeg. Faculty of Education.
Identifiers - Location: Canada