In Hungary, 73.8% of students at ISCED3 participate in general, non-vocational education and 26.2% in vocational education (source:

CEDEFOP). The aim of training vocational teachers is to prepare participants to teach vocational subjects at the stages of formal education that prepare for a vocational degree in teaching, in formal and non-formal vocational training at basic and intermediate level, in the vocational training and retraining of adults and in National

Qualifications Register  vocational trainings.   An unique feature of

the activities of vocational teachers is that they are allowed to teach outside the formal education system, so teachers should be prepared to teach young, adults and students with special needs, in addition to the 14-18-year old age group.

Matching the peculiarities of Hungarian vocational education, we develop methodology trainings for complex school subjects to develop the educational competences needed for designing and applying complex curriculum units in the training of vocational teachers and practical trainings. The basic idea was to provide a base for a new, medium-term research and development project that will aim at applying the developed methods and procedures in practice, designing and applying new e-learning curricula and controlling performance.

Our research essentially focuses on the differentiated control of the in-class activities of vocational teachers and the application of efficient educational methods an procedures. The preparation of teachers is based both on conventional criteria such as knowldge, skills and attitudes and teaching competences, divided as follows:

vocational training didactics and vocational knowledge; planning the educational process; supporting, organising and controlling learning; evaluating educational processes and students; This project focuses on the development of vocational training didactics and vocational knowledge and supporting, organising and controlling learning.

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