CRITICAL REVIEW 2 MP111480

AHMAD SASHWANI BIN AZMI

MP111480

Critical review

Citation:  Feiyue Qiu, Lifang Lu, 2010. “The current situation and consideration on the professional development of secondary vocational school teachers”. College of education and technology, Zhejiang University of Technology.

The author has discusses on the current situation on the professional development of Secondary Vocational School teachers in China. The secondary school become popular and have increase enrolment  due to rapid development of vocational education. The author mention that teachers in secondary vocational school. The authors mention that teachers in secondary schools vocational play an important role in providing a high level of training to students to meet the expectations of the industry for skilled workers . The main thing is the willingness of teachers according to the authors, most of the existing teacher does not want to increase the skills to be a priority due to the lack of motivation, curriculum content that is due to the old, not the latest equipment and lack of collaboration between  university and  enterprises and lack management of teacher professional development and measures of teacher tracking training. The author also states that  teachers are likely to continue their studies in the areas of interest alone is not a required field in school.

The authors mentioned several expectation , The authors state several research questions in the current situation to identify special education, professional activities that can improve teachers, teacher development factor, mememerlukan involvement activities, and this is an important issue that must be addressed in order to promote teacher professional development plan.

The data is taken from survey conducted among professional backbone teachers , who participated in national-level training of nationwide secondary school. 136 questionaire were distributed, 97 recovered, 84 valid questionnaire .The authors used SPSS 16 regression techniques to test his assumptions. The tables were well organised. The dependent variable was clearly stated in all tables. A survey instrument was not provided, but several of the question from the audiens were quoted in the article.

Using the variety of statistical methods the authors demonstrates a number of interesting findings. A frequency analysis shows that teacher are not ready to further study or not going to take part on autonomous activities rather than stated conventional activities revealing that time is the biggest obstacle. The independent variable that measured weather a respondent was a willingness to develop professional teaching was a time . It affecting the professional development of secondary vocational teachers.

several conclusion and consideration were drawn from this research , supporting the teacher from down motivation on further study . However, the finding that time is obstacles and school rules and regulation was larger cause which hinder the teacher to further study.