Todor Kableshkov Higher School of

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Todor Kableshkov Higher School of  Transport

• TR/05/B/F/PP/178 009 MODULAR TE
• Questionnaires results presentation

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Activity and common results of Questionnaires
filling

• Total users about 90 persons/professionals in
  Technology training at High and Higher Schools
  (Universities)
• Sent e-mails to all users 4- 5 letters
• Personal e-mail to single users for additional
  explanations about 15 letters
• Additional filled questionnaires after personal
  explanations 2 3 questionnaires/2
• Fully filled questionnaires 17 / 19
• Not fully filled questionnaires 2
  questionnaires/12 from filled (31 of May 2006)

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 1-Technology Education activities should be
  primarily conducted in classroom environment
  instead of workshop environment.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 2-Technology awareness and technology literacy
  acquisitions, which are of the teaching functions
  of Technology Education, should not be seen
  possible through traditional work training
  programs.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 3-Technology Education should be considered to be
  part of general education in its existing
  application manner

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 4-Technology Education should not be conducted
  without applications based on the projects where
  knowledge is transformed into practice.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 5-Technology Education should be conducted in an
  understanding focused on visual arts .

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 6-Technology Education should be given only in
  primary education, instead of giving it in
  pre-school, secondary and higher education.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 7-Studies that introduce the vocations included
  in Technology Education should be performed by
  guidance and psychological consultants, instead
  of Technology Education teachers.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 8-Two hours of course a week are enough for
  teaching processes at primary education level of
  Technology Education.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 9-Technology Education and computer training
  should be given in the processes that complement
  one another.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 10-Technology Education should not be related
  only with electronic equipment such as computers
  and their applications.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 11-Technology Education should be performed by
  more than one teacher in primary education, as it
  contains different branches of knowledge.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 12-Classroom environments are sufficient to
  achieve training acquisitions targeted by
  Technology Education .

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 13-Technology Education is conducted far away
  from its function which introduces the qualities
  of working life.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 14-Technology Education should be conducted in a
  manner to cover primary education, secondary
  education and higher education as well, starting
  from pre-school period, in an understanding and
  process continuing lifetime.

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Questionnaires resultsPractice

• 15-Though Technology Education contains different
  branches of knowledge, it should be conducted by
  uniform teachers.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 1-Technology Education should be conducted
  focused on a structuralise teaching approach.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 2-General quality small vocational practices, in
  addition to knowledge, should also be included in
  Technology Education to bring forth vocational
  interests and talents of the students.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 3-Technology Education should concentrate on
  cooperative learning.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 4-Technology Education should include project
  studies which could be performed both
  individually and in groups.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 5-Technology Education should include trip and
  observation activities to ensure integrity
  between the school and the environment.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 6-Technology Education should include designing,
  obtaining numerical results, preparing graphics
  and teaching procedures.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 7-Technology Education should stress on using the
  communication language of technical drawing.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 8-Technology Education should include cost
  determination studies.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 9-In Technology Education, survey trips should be
  organized in order to observe vocational
  developments in site.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 10-In order to be informed of technologies, all
  kinds of machines, models, products, projects and
  parts, which ensure that technology is known
  better, should be brought to school or their
  similar should be examined.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 11-In Technology Education, in order to be able
  to participate in the technological process, the
  applications which provide interaction among the
  school, working life, and the environment should
  be directed from the classroom to the society and
  working life.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 12-In Technology Education, in order to develop
  technological information and skills, not only
  oral expressions should be used, but also making
  graphics, technical drawings, diagrams,
  plans,projects and designs should be focused on,
  in teaching and learning processes.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 13-In Technology Education, in order to be able
  to use problem-solving methods effectively,
  students should be given exercises where they
  could use their own individual designing,
  planning and application capabilities, instead of
  giving them problems with solutions.

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Questionnaires resultsMethod

• 14-In Technology Education, practical subjects
  such as the discovery of electricity, its
  generation, its illuminating and heating effects,
  calculating electric power (watt) cost etc.
  should be taught.

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Questionnaires resultsVocational Guidance

• 1-Within the scope of Technology Education,
  business trips should be organized for vocational
  guidance.

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Questionnaires resultsVocational Guidance

• 2-Within the scope of Technology Education,
  conferences introducing vocational fields should
  be organized for vocational guidance.

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Questionnaires resultsVocational Guidance

• 3-Within the scope of Technology Education,
  vocational working environments and conditions
  should be introduced for vocational guidance.

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Questionnaires resultsVocational Guidance

• 4-Within the scope of Technology Education,
  vocation-related jobs and works should be
  introduced by means of professionals to be
  invited to school for vocational guidance.

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Questionnaires resultsVocational Guidance

• 5-Within the scope of Technology Education,
  guidance files related with physical and
  intellectual development of the students should
  be prepared for vocational guidance.

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Questionnaires resultsVocational Guidance

• 6-Within the scope of Technology Education, for
  vocational guidance, students should be requested
  to select one of the jobs from a given job list
  and to defend it based on grounds in an approach
  that every job is important.

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Questionnaires resultsVocational Guidance

• 7-Within the scope of Technology Education, for
  vocational guidance, students should be taught in
  practice how they should act in front of events
  which may be encountered in real life, such as
  application for a job, request for electricity or
  telephone connections etc.

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Questionnaires resultsVocational Guidance

• 8-Within the scope of Technology Education, for
  vocational guidance, types of interests which
  would allow the students to know their own fields
  of interest should be determined in an approach
  of

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 1-The development process of technology should be
  included in Technology Education for adaptation
  to industry.

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 2-Within the scope of Technology Education,
  industry-focused training courses should be given
  to provide adaptation to industry.

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 3-Within the scope of Technology Education, a
  reciprocal training interaction should be
  established between small and medium-size
  industrial enterprises and Faculties of Education
  for adaptation to industry.

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 4-Within the scope of Technology Education,
  educational processes intended for acquiring
  general technologic information, skills and
  attitudes should be followed for adaptation to
  industry.

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 5-Within the scope of Technology Education, a
  current and live information center, introducing
  possibilities and conditions of employment in
  industry, focused on technology education and
  its industrial connection should be established
  over Internet, for adaptation to industry.

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 6-Within the scope of Technology Education,
  studies related with industrial products quality
  certificates should be conducted to facilitate
  adaptation to industry

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 7-Within the scope of Technology Education,
  studies focused on industrial vocational
  standards should be conducted to facilitate
  adaptation to industry.

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 8-In Technology Education, studies introducing
  changes in production systems should be
  conducted.

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 9-In order to adapt Technology Education to
  industry, coordinated contributions by
  labour-employer organizations, industrial
  establishments and educational institutions
  should be provided.

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Questionnaires resultsAdaptation To Industry

• 10-In order to adapt Technology Education to
  industry, it should be ensured that school is
  integrated into industry and working life.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 1-A Technology Education teacher should have
  sufficient knowledge and experience in various
  subjects, such as science, math, energy,
  production, technical drawing etc.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 2-A Technology Education teacher should be
  familiar with cultural, social and economical
  effects of information technologies.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 3-A Technology Education teacher should stress on
  project management in teaching processes, as a
  basis of understanding technology.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 4-A Technology Education teacher should stress on
  project management in teaching processes, which
  would transform the knowledge into works,
  products and services by means of project studies
  confirming to the fields of interest of the
  students and to the real life, as a basis of
  understanding technology.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 5-A Technology Education teacher should encourage
  students to be autonomous and entrepreneur by
  means of production activities.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 6-A Technology Education teacher should prepare a
  medium to take advantage of other disciplinary
  fields (such as science, math, technical drawing
  etc.) in educational operations such as
  calculating, obtaining numerical conclusions,
  drawing and writing grounds in project studies.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 7-A Technology Education teacher should know the
  principles of planning, placing and arranging
  physical rooms such as workshops, labs, offices
  etc. related with technological training.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 8-A Technology Education teacher should cause the
  students to conduct studies that develop their
  vocational skills and attitudes for the purpose
  of improving their individual work abilities and
  their self-confidence.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 9-A Technology Education teacher should cause
  students to perform workshop practices based on
  technology, instead of classroom studies in
  acquiring self-confidence ,self-control,
  sensitivity, responsibility and group-relation
  properties.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 10-A Technology Education teacher should prepare
  two and three-dimension visual materials, such as
  graphics, designs, photos, pictures, posters
  etc., intended for training in teaching
  processes.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 11-A Technology Education teacher should
  introduce technological developments, by giving
  examples of publications and products.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 12-A Technology Education teacher should use
  tables, instead of desks according to group works
  in classroom and workshop environments.

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Questionnaires resultsTeacher

• 13-A Technology Education teacher should apply a
  U order in classroom placement so as the
  teachers table to be in the middle and students
  desks to be around it, in order to facilitate
  that the students interact and communicate face
  to face with one another and with the teacher.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 1-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain a field of learning technology
  culture .

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 2-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain a field of learning vocations.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 3-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain a field of learning project
  studies.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 4-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain a field of learning production
  activities.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 5-In raising a Technology Education teacher, a
  program focused on industrial technology and
  design should be followed.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 6-In raising a Technology Education teacher, an
  artistic dimension should be included as well as
  a technological understanding.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 7-A Technology Education program should be
  designed in knowledge, skills and attitudes
  dimensions.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 8-A Technology Education program should be
  focused on acquiring technological culture.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 9-A Technology Education program should give
  special importance on introducing vocational
  fields.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 10-A Technology Education program should be
  supported by project studies to be selected
  according to students fields of interest and
  their talents.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 11-A Technology Education program should include
  general production studies directed to acquiring
  vocational knowledge, skills and attitudes.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 12-A Technology Education program should be
  designed from interdisciplinary subjects, based
  on scientific principles.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 13-A Technology Education program should be
  designed so as to include scientific, social,
  educational, cultural and economical effects of
  technology.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 14-A Technology Education program should handle
  individual, social and industrialization
  relations of technology and it should introduce
  working life.

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Questionnaires results Teacher Training

• 15-A Technology Education program should be based
  on introducing and using new Technologies in
  teaching, learning and evaluation processes.

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Questionnaires results Program

• 1-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning
  "Electric-Electronic".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 2-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Computer ".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 3-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Control ".

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• 4-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Energy"

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Questionnaires results Program

• 5-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Construction".

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• 6-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Wood Working".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 7-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Metal".

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• 8-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Machine".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 9-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Plastic".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 10-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Graphic".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 11-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Ceramic".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 12-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Textile".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 13-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Transport".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 14-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Nourishment".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 15-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Financing".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 16-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Mechatronic".

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• 17-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Automotive".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 18-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Environment".

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Questionnaires results Program

• 19-A Technology Education teacher raising program
  should contain fields of learning "Journalism".

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Questionnaires Comments

• Although the considerable diversity of
  professionals that took part in investigation,
  remarkable grouping of opinions is observed
• The causes for that coincidence the participants
  in investigation like current system of training,
  they think it is useful for Bulgarian conditions
  of technology teachers training.

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Questionnaires Comments

• The causes for noticed divergences some of the
  questions are not closely connected to Bulgarian
  system of technology teachers training,
  difference in the terms that are used in
  Bulgaria.

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