Vocational Education Manual. Peace Corps/Tunisia. a Handbook for Volunteers
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 241 784 CZ 038 591 AUTHOR Opper, Howard fo TITLE Vocational Education Manual. Peace Corps/Tunisia. A Handbook for Volunteers. Appropriate Technologies for Development. Reprint R-46. INSTITUTION Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. PUB DATE Sep 82 NOTE 323p.; Not available in paper copy dueo light and broken type. PUB TYPE Guides - Classroom Use - Guides (For Tea ers) (052) EDRS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from FxDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Classroom Techniques; Curriculum; Job Training; Lesson Plans; Postsecondary Education; *Preservice Teacher Education; School Administration; School Policy;. Student Evaluation; Teacher Education; Teacher Role; *Teaching Methods; *Training Mechods; Vocational Education; *Vocational Education Teachers; Volunteers; *Volunteer Training IDENTIFIERS *Tunisia ABSTRACT This manual was developed to train Peace Corps volunteers to teach vocational education. in Tunisia, although it also has applications to the training of volunteers in other countries. The book is organized into four sections. The first section is an introduction that provides background information on the school system and the Peace Corps vocational education program in Tunisia. The second section, one of importance to volunteers working in various countries, concerns basic pedagogical skills. This section explains the fundamental principles of teaching a vocational subject, including lesson planning, teaching methods, and evaluation. In the third section, detailed Tunisia - specific information is given on school procedures, curriculum, discipline, grading, and forms. The final section is an appendix that covers additional information that a Tunisian vocational education volunteer would find useful. The manual is not self-teaching and is meant to be used in a classroom situation. (KC) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT .4 to t, Vocational Education Mahual A Handbook for Volunteers U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EOUCATION EDUCATIONAl.RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERIC) iThis dactimen, has been temoduced as tattooed from the pollen or organdation Ottgonahng 01 Moot changes have been made In ambove 0 won:Mum:in qualoy Points et mew or opinions stated m the docu moot do not neCeSsahle teOteseni olive' NIE 00Smon et gOltcY. 0 Peace Corps INFORMATION COLLECTION &EXCHANGE REPRINT R-46 INFOIMTION CCILLID:TION & laCHAIM Peace Corps' Information Collection & Exchange (ICE) was established so that the strategies and technologies devel- oped by Peace Corps lunteers, their co-workers, and their counterparts could be - available to the wide range of development organize = and individual workers who might find them useful. guides, curricula, lesson plans, project reports, manuals other Peace COxpeo-generated materials developed in the 'field are collected and reviewed. Some are reprinted'"as is"vothers provide a source of field based information for the prodOction of manuals or for re- search in particular progrmwarees. Materials that you sub- mit to the Information Collection & &change thus become part of the Peace Corps' larger contribution to development. Information about ICE publications and services is available through; Peace Corps c lamination Collection & Exchange Office of Program Developnent 806 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20526 Add your experience to the ICE Pesouroe Center. Send ma- terials that you've prepared so that we can share them with others working in the development field.Your tech- nical insights serve as the basis for the generation of ICE manuals, reprints and resource packets, and also ensure that ICE ii providing the most updated, innovative problem-solving techniques and information available to you and your fella./ development workers. Peace Corps 3 i VOCATIONAL EDUCTION MANUAL PEACE CORPS/TUNISIA I c. BY HOWARD OPPER Peace Corps Information Collection and Exchange Manual R-46 1979 September 1982 4 .:. ii, Ac:cnowledmeilts This manual is by no means the work of one single person.It is the accumulation of knowledge gathered from all Peace Corps/Tunisia Voc, Id. Volunteers cover the last four years. Recognition, therefore must go to all those volunteers who have helped build the Voc, ad. program into its present state of successful credibility. Special thanks also to Mr. Angus Macdonald of San Jose State University in California, who has been the pillar of the pedagogical formation of Tunisian Voc. Ed. Volunteers over the past five years. A final thanks goes to the Peace Corps staff in Tunisia, especially to Mr. Fred flosonzweig, whose, unfailing devotion to the Voc. Cd. program has been a major contri- bution to the firm establishment of our presence in the Secondary Professional school system in Tunisia. HO. .5 'f TABLE OF. CONTENTS Introduction SECTION I - Introductory Material A. Education Tunisia, **... B. The Technical School System *,, .... ..... .. 5 C. P,C. Tunisia: Vocational Education 8 D. Training ............ ..... .17 SECTION it . Pedagogy A. Introduction........... 20 B. Humari Relations in. 21 Education 22 C. Five Part Plus One Teaching Design 32 D. Teaching Methods: More Information on the Demonstration 50 E. Writing a Lesson Plan ....... 53 F. How to begin a Project/ Theme in a Workshop 60 G. Critiquing a Technical Lesson. 63 SECTION III - Tunisia Specific Job Information A. Introduction........ 70 B. tour Job . 70 I. The PCV in the school and the country. 70 2. As an .Smployee of the Ministry of Education 71 - Duties(- approximate. 72 chronological order) The Official Program 1. Introduction .76 2. Translations of Programs ....... 78 a.Metals.... 78 b.Woodworking. 101 c.Plumbing-Heating .......... 132 d.Autcs-Mechanics 143 5. Somefinal notes on the official Program 174 iv, D. Relations at school 176 1. Introduction.. 176 2. Administration 176 .0. Col leagues 180 4. Students .. 101 E. Discipline 184 i F. Grading 188 Testing 192 H. School Procedures. 196 1. Student Notebooks 196 2, Handouts 197 3. Technical Teaching Aids 197 4. Ordering Supplies 199 1. School Forms** ZOO SECTION 1V - Appendix A. Conversion Tables 211 B. Classroom Commands in French 217 C. Tool Translations* 218 D. Safety Lesson 221 E. Secondary Activities 222 F. Resources .226 G. Glossary .. 228 . v. Introduction The Vocation& Zducation program in Tunisia began in 1972,Cince that time a great deal of valuable training materi- als have been written, revised, and refined.It has been our experience that training Vocational ;Education oluntoero le more difficult than most other groups.In the space ol'a relatively short training program, the trainees, who have raraly had any prior French, and who have ucually no prior teaching :experience, must become proficient onough in French to teach in tha inmsuageo must acquire tho necessary pedagogical skills, and must bocome familiar with the Tunisian vocational education system. In order to assemble t!,training; materials into a more usable form we have put togathor this training manual.It repro- sante a collection of materials produced by various sources, in- cludino California C.:tate Universi:y in Los Isnr.elez, Angus MacOoncid, and various Tunisia Voce ad, Voltonteers.The materials have now been editod, coaepilecl, and organized. The purpose of this training manual is, then, twofold: iito provides a training manual with essential inform- ation to aid Voc. Ed. trainees and trainers, 2)to put torether information on training Voc, Ed. Volunteers which other Peace Corps countries with similar programs might find useful. The applicability of this manual to other countries will depend primarily on tha nature of the Vocational Education program in the country.In Tunicia tha procram has been a formal education on in which the Volunteers toch within a fair- ly well developed vocational education system under tha iviini str y of :Education.This necessitates quite a bit of detailed inform- ation on school procedurec, a case which may not be true in all countries. Much of the book is Tunisia-apecific and therefore contains information which will probably not be specifically rele- vant.However, Peace Corps countries which are involved in loosely structured technical programs or in formal technical school programs that aro somewhat lacking in programmatic direction rnioht find a good deal of this information very helpful ,. in creating new programs or in re- directing existing. ones. , Structure of the Cook The book is organized into four sections: vi. I. The first section is an introduction which provides back- ground information on the school system and the Peace Corps Voc. Ed. program in Tunisia. r 2, The second concerns basic pedagogical skills.It is this section that will probably be of groatost use to others. : It 4 xplains the fundamental principles of teaching a vocational subject including lesson-planning, teaching mat:loJs, and evaluation. 3. The third section contains detailed Tunisia - specific information on school procedures such as school relations, curriculum, discipline, grading, and school forms. This soction might aid other countries in dealing with curriculum deficiencies and in offering concrete sugges- tions in designing a course. 4. The last soction is an appendix which covers additional information that a Tunisia Voc. Ed. Volunteer would find useful.Some