Peculiarities of realizationof professional competences of students of educology of technologies after pedagogical practice

The basic feature of the modern society is constant change and permanent renewal. This, in turn, has affected pedagogical practice in general education schools as the goals of education have changed, new technologies appear, teacher's roles – when he is now seen as an organizer of the learning process, a creator of learning possibilities, an adviser, a partner, an educator, and an intermediate between the learner and various modern information sources - have also been updated. The research object is professional competences of future technology teachers. The aim of the work is to analyze peculiarities of the realization of future technology teachers' professional competences during pedagogical practice. The following research methods were applied: a semi-structured interview, a non-standardized questionnaire, a qualitative content analysis. One group of the respondents included five four-year daytime students and five four-year extra-mural students of pedagogy of technologies from Vilnius pedagogical university who had their pedagogical practice in 2011. The other group of the qualitative research was made of ten teacher mentors of the mentioned student teacher trainees. The acquired results of the research on peculiarities of the realization of future technology teachers' professional competences during pedagogical practice have revealed the following tendencies: • student teacher trainees are good at motivating and supporting their learners; • students apply various techniques, methods and strategies of evaluation of learners' achievements but face with problems when evaluating achievements of learners with special needs; • student teacher trainees have developed a good competence of managing the teaching / learning process but they experience difficulties with controlling learners' behaviour during lessonsVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij