THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL COMPETENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FUTURE PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS

Abstract

The educational process is influenced by several factors that directly affect the effectiveness of education. Important factors influencing this process include not only the content and scope of education, but also the factors affecting teachers and pupils play an important role. The educational process is influenced by the application of didactical means, materialistic (used teaching aids and didactical technologies) and at the same time the necessarily included non-material didactical means (methods of teacher’s work, didactic principles, teaching forms and others). Environmental factors have a significant impact on the quality of the educational process, not speaking just about the school environment, hygiene factors, the staff consistence, but also the personality of the teacher, the acquired knowledge, the school climate, or respectively the class climate. The right choice, application and formation of educational factors has got a positive effect on to the increase of the pupils' interest in the teaching process, or to the specific subject. The paper focuses on identifying factors in the subject Technology that affect pupils in education and at the same time affect the professional orientation of pupils and the choice of study at high school.