The Competency in Professional Internship of Industrial Vocational Pre-Service Teachers
King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thailand
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this project was to study competency and responsibility from professional internship subject of 5th year students of pre-service teachers from the faculty of Industrial Education and Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi. The evaluation on the professional internship of pre-service teachers was manipulated by mentor using questionnaires. The evaluation aimed to develop pre-service teachers to gain a competency of technical teachers, and experiences to deliver knowledge efficiently. The result of the study was that the responsibility of pre-service teachers assigned by the mentor was to teach the specific majoring courses for 6-12 hours per week. The other was to control the students, check the student’s participation in the morning activity. The best competency of pre-service teachers was on human relation approach with mean at 4.48. And the expectation of mentor to pre-service teachers was to gain the responsibility in the career.
KEYWORDS
Pre-service Teachers, Professional Internship, Technical Teachers Responsibility