Selected Results of the Research Focused on Implementation of Communication Competence of the Teachers of the Subject Technical Education in Lower Secondary Education

Abstract

Teacher’s profession requires lifelong learning and competence development. Competences, which are nowadays understood as an open system of professional qualities that is capable of development, cover the whole range of exercise of profession in the components of knowledge, skills, experience, attitudes and personal preconditions, and they are all interconnected and under-stood as a whole. 230 Major change that happened in recent years in school reform considering elementary and sec-ondary schools in Slovakia, is the orientation towards new educational goals in 21.century – de-velopment and improvement of key competences of the teachers through lifelong learning. Act from 2008 on Upbringing and Education (the School Act) also follows these goals. This Act has set the goal of education – teaching pupils towards key competences. Since the subject Technical education in lower secondary education in Slovak Republic is being realised since school year 2015-2016 according to innovated Educational standard (inovovaný Vzdelávací štandard), in which there are clearly set goals what should a pupil achieve at the end of the given year, our goal was to find out what kind of computer literky has the teacher of the given subject mastered and how can that literacy be applied in achieving set goals.