PaedDr. Mária Fartelová, Head of Department
Phone: 00421 2 62 52 02 50
e-mail: fartelova@siov.sk

The Department secures tasks in the area of:

• specialized subjects teacher training,
  
  
• vtraining of foremen and instructors of practical training centers.
  Ing. Peter Sedlák
  Phone: 00421 2 62 52 02 60
  e-mail: sedlak@siov.sk
  
  
• textbook and teaching aids development
  PhDr. Silvia Bielková
  Phone: 00421 2 62 52 02 60
  e-mail: bielkova@siov.sk

The Department provides further training for teachers of specialized subjects and vocational training for foremen of secondary apprentice and vocational schools in Slovakia in connection with the needs and tendencies of secondary vocational education and training and those of the labor market.

The aim of these educational activities is systematic deepening and broadening of professional and pedagogical competencies of educators in line with the latest progressive knowledge, technological innovations, social needs and requirements of teaching and professional practice. By its activities, it reflects the current demands in relation to innovation of the contents of education and pedagogical documentation, eventually by implementation of new trade and study branches into practice.

The Department supports educators at schools in obtaining new knowledge, skills and competencies by further training through new progressive methods of learning like distance learning, e-learning; it monitors new trends and facilitates the application of obtained knowledge in practice.

It realizes its activities by means of continuous training, specialized, innovative study, as well as through implementation of domestic and foreign projects.

The Department coordinates and provides the development of specialized subjects textbooks for secondary technical and secondary vocational schools in connection with school demands and in line with the Textbook Development and Issuing Policy and in line with Competition Policy. It proposes the design of new textbooks and provides for competition on the basis of textbook assessment criteria. It regularly organizes workshops introducing new textbooks in the presence of authors and publishers.