Vinh University of Technical Education trains highly qualified vocational teachers

(Baonghean) - Vinh University of Technical Education is one of the five universities nationwide that trains vocational teachers at master, university and college levels. From this school, thousands of students have graduated and become key cadres and teachers in the field of vocational training nationwide.

Vinh Technical Pedagogical University officially came into operation in 1960 and officially changed its name to Vinh Vocational Teacher Training School in 1973. Since then, in parallel with the task of training engineers in technical fields, the school has also been a place to train vocational teachers. At first, the school had a Pedagogical Department. However, since 2000, when Technical Pedagogical School 3 was developed into Vinh Technical Teacher Training College, the Pedagogical Department was renamed the Faculty of Pedagogy.

The main objective of the school is to train a team of vocational teachers in the direction of standardization, approaching the development of vocational training according to new requirements. From there, meeting the requirements of training human resources to serve the industrialization and modernization of the country as well as training human resources to contribute to making Nghe An the center of development of the North Central region.

2016 Pedagogical Competition at Vinh University of Technical Education.

Looking back at the formation and development process of the Faculty of Technical Education, there have been many ups and downs. With the advantage of being one of the five universities in the country training technical education students, this used to be the cradle of training teachers in Industrial Engineering for high schools, training vocational teachers for most colleges, intermediate schools, and vocational schools in the Central and Central Highlands provinces.

In Nghe An, many key staff in vocational schools also grew up from this school. Recently, due to difficulties in recruiting students in the pedagogical system, the number of training is not as high as before. However, the school is still the first choice for students who are passionate about teaching because this is still a key industry with a long tradition of the school.

Every year, the school has 150-200 students enrolling in the Faculty of Technical Education. These are all students with good academic performance, good character and ethics, who wish to become vocational teachers and are selected from the faculties and majors in the technical sector throughout the school.

Vinh University of Technical Education organized the Robocon 2016 Creativity Contest.

“2 in 1” is also the advantage of students studying Technical Education at Vinh University of Technical Education. Accordingly, students studying 1 of 6 majors such as Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering... if they wish, from the 3rd semester they will be able to study for a vocational teaching certificate.

As a result, after graduation, students will have two options: either to be an engineer or to be a vocational teacher. In particular, students who register to study Pedagogy will be exempted from tuition fees during their studies.

In fact, in recent years, the employment rate of students graduating from the Technical Pedagogy major of the school has been nearly 90%. Among them, there are many students with excellent academic results who have been retained at the school to work as lecturers after graduation.

With this training method, the school also promotes its advantages. That is, students are trained systematically in many different faculties with many experienced and dedicated teachers. At the same time, they have the opportunity to practice, work in many different environments and take full advantage of the available advantages of the school's facilities and equipment.

A practical lesson of mechanical engineering students.

In 2016, the school was allowed by the Ministry of Education and Training to pilot the training of master-level vocational teachers in two majors: master of electrical engineering pedagogy and master of automobile engineering pedagogy. This is an opportunity to invest in developing and improving the technical pedagogical level for the team of managers and technical teachers. They are the ones who directly train a team of qualified technical workers, meeting the current requirements of industrialization and modernization in our country.

In parallel with training full-time technical pedagogy students, the Faculty of Technical Pedagogy also plays a good role in fostering pedagogical skills for intermediate vocational teachers, university and college lecturers according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training; short-term courses such as training in vocational training management skills, vocational training pedagogy skills, integrated teaching skills in vocational training...

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In particular, the faculty currently has 8 teachers with international vocational pedagogical qualifications. This is a very good advantage, so that in the near future when the International Vocational Skills Assessment Center comes into operation, the school will be the first unit in the country qualified to train vocational teachers with international vocational pedagogical certificates. From there, training courses will be gradually organized to gradually standardize the team of vocational teachers nationwide according to international and regional standards according to the Government's vocational training development strategy.

To take advantage of the advantages and opportunities in the new period, Ms. Phan Thi Tam - Deputy Head of the Faculty, in charge of the Faculty of Technical Pedagogy, said: Building a team of lecturers is a key task, focusing on improving international pedagogical skills (level 2), improving political theory, foreign languages ​​and other soft skills classes. Strengthening scientific research activities in the field of technical pedagogy. Especially focusing on applied topics such as: Integrated teaching in vocational training, credit teaching, teaching methods of technical subjects, testing and assessment in technical pedagogical subjects...

In addition, we will continue to promote the construction and development of technical pedagogical training programs according to regional and international standards, and move towards opening international vocational pedagogical training classes for vocational teachers to meet the increasing demands of the current integration process.

My Ha