Professional Development of Lecturers in Further Education and Training

By: Simeon, Everistus

Introduction Professional development of the educator is instrumental to successful delivery of curriculum programme. Poor throughput rates, high drop-out, low progression and poor completion rates among students on the National Certificate Vocational (NCV) programme in the Further Education and Training (FET) colleges are a symptom of poor teaching and learning. The FET colleges are the main providers of vocational and technical education and cater for school leavers who are above fifteen years of age. Key role-players in the FET colleges' sector attribute poor performance to inadequate preparation of lecturers who lack the requisite knowledge and skills for effective curriculum delivery. Among others, the South African Council of Educators (SACE, 2011:5) acknowledges the problem, linking it to "a lack of clear policy on the initial preparation of college lecturers as well as to a lack of professional development programmes". To Papier and McGrath (2009:7), the problem has arisen because higher education "institutions have, in the absence of national vocational teacher training programmes, been offering adapted versions of school-teacher preparation programmes". Historically, technical college lecturers were not required to have specific teaching qualifications.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09RJRCSTL
• ISBN13: 9798410356916
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"