A Study for the Development Needs of Professional Teachers at Vocational Education and Training Institution in Mongolia

Abstract

This paper describes an importance of development needs of professional teachers at vocational education and training institutions in Mongolia. Study group consisted of 14 public and private vocational education institutions and 285 professional teachers participated in the survey. The purpose of this study was to determine the needs of teacher training and professional development at vocational education and training institutions. In particular, the relationship between the needs of teachers and the factors that influence them have been analyzed within the framework of the survey. For statistical analyses, variation value, reliability analysis, KMO and Bartlett’s test, commonality of variables, correlation analysis were performed. The findings indicated that it is necessary to implement various policies and activities to support and develop school-based activities and support them financially in order to ensure the professional development of teachers. Also, it is required to consider the teacher development of training content and improvement of training courses to support the development of teachers of vocational education and training. Moreover, there is need to operate the content of training for teacher development. The paper concludes with recommendations for further investigation.