Chapter 4 Technical & Vocational Education Teachers
Article 24
Pre-service teacher education programs to qualify people to teach in elementary, junior high, and senior secondary schools shall include subjects related to vocational education and training and to career planning as compulsory credit courses.
The pre-service teacher education programs to qualify people to teach subjects in vocational area programs in senior secondary schools shall include a training internship of at least 18 hours in a related industry that will be arranged by a university providing teacher education and training.
Article 25
Teachers of vocational subjects and technical subjects at technical and vocational education institutions shall have had at least one year of actual practical work experience in an industry sector related to the subject area in which they are appointed to teach. However, this restriction does not apply to people to whom either of the circumstances below pertain:
Any person who was already appointed and working as a fulltime qualified teacher when this Act came into effect on January 14, 2015.
Any person who on July 30, 2019 had a teacher’s certificate qualifying them to teach a particular subject at a skills-based senior high school, a general senior high school with affiliated vocational program divisions; or a comprehensive senior high school providing vocational programs and been to work at a senior secondary school as a fulltime qualified teacher of a vocational subject or a technical subject.
The standards for the assessment and endorsement of teachers’ actual practical work experience in an industry sector corresponding to the subject area in which they are appointed to teach referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.
When appointing qualified full-time teachers to teach vocational subjects and technical subjects, senior secondary schools shall give preference to appointing persons who have had at least one year of actual practical work experience in an industry sector related to the subject area in which they will teach if they are appointed, and to persons referred to in Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 1. If vacant teaching positions are still available, persons referred to Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 2 who do not have at least one year of work experience may be appointed.
Article 26
After every six years of working at a technical and vocational education institution, qualified teachers of vocational subjects or technical subjects; professional and technical staff; and vocational and technical subject instructors shall go and undertake at least a half a year of study or research related to their professional or technical area of expertise with an organization that collaborates with their technical and vocational education institution, or with an industry related to the subject area in which they teach. The regulations governing the study or research of technical and vocational education institution staff shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.
During the time that a person is undertaking the study or research referred to in the preceding paragraph, the technical and vocational education institution shall retain the person’s post, pay their salary, and grant their official leave. It shall also sign a written agreement with the person beforehand stipulating the start date and end date of the study or research; service obligations; the circumstances under which a breach of the provisions incurs a mandatory repayment of expenses; the accounting criteria; and compulsory implementation matters.
When, in response to its teaching or business requirements, a technical and vocational education institution makes recommendations for, or assigns, or permits any of its teachers, professional and technical staff, or vocational and technical teachers to engage in study or research with a collaborating organization or with an industry related to the subject area in which a person teaches, the way that this is carried out is not subject to the restrictions set out in the preceding two paragraphs.
Technical and vocational education institutions shall invite their collaborating organizations or related professional groups or industries to jointly plan and conduct the industry related study or research referred to in Paragraph 1; when necessary, assistance may be provided by the competent authority.
The competent authority may give incentive rewards to technical and vocational education institutions which achieve outstanding results promoting and implementing their qualified teachers of vocational subjects or technical subjects, professional and technical staff, and vocational and technical instructors regularly going into their respective industry areas and engaging in research or study.