With rapid developement of the IT uses and applications, Tech School Training is growing leaps and bounds. The primary goal is to prepare students
for jobs or additional education by employing a unique entry level with a hands-on approach to training.
A vocational-technical school, often called a voc-tech school, is a high school in the United States and Canada designed to bring vocational and
technical training to its students. Such skills become highly valuable to students entering into a vocational or technical field without first
obtaining higher education. On the other hand, students bound for college can use such skills to realize a distinct educational advantage over
other students in their major.
Additionally, vocational-technical schools often provide training to adults from the surrounding communities. The training, offered for a cost,
may range from a single course to an entire program of ten or more courses.
Vocational-technical schools are licensed, registered, or accredited like any other high school.
A school (from Greek - scholeion) is an institution designed to allow and encourage students (or "pupils") to learn, under the supervision
of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a
series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the Regional section below), but generally include primary
school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education.
In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also have access to and attend schools both before and after primary
and secondary education. Kindergarten or pre-school provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3-5). University,
vocational school, college or seminary may be available after (or in lieu of) secondary school. A school may also be dedicated to one
particular field, such as a school of economics or a school of dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods.
There are also non-government schools, called private schools. Private schools may be for children with special needs when the
government does not supply for them; religious, such as Christian Schools, Khalsa Schools, Torah Schools and others; or schools
that have a higher standard of education or seek to foster other personal achievements. In homeschooling and online schools, teaching and
learning take place outside of a traditional school building.
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Though less common, some vocational-technical schools are full-time. Not only do they provide vocational and technical training, but they also
provide traditional academics that students would typically receive during high school, all within one school district or building. Such
schools often expose students to their academic classes during one half of the day, and to their vocational and technical classes during
the other half.
Most vocational-technical schools, however, are part-time. This means that they only provide vocational and technical training, while the
academic portion of their education is obtained from their home school district. Students engaged in such schools often spend one half of
the school year at their home school for academic classes and the other half of the school year at the vocational-technical school for training.
The term training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical
skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of
content at technical colleges and polytechnics. In addition to the basic training required for a trade, occupation or profession,
observers of the labor-market[who?] recognize today the need to continue training beyond initial qualifications: to maintain, upgrade
and update skills throughout working life. People within many professions and occupations may refer to this sort of training as
professional development.
Some commentators use a similar term for workplace learning to improve performance: training and development. One can generally
categorize such training as on-the-job or off-the-job:
On-the-job training takes place in a normal working situation, using the actual tools, equipment, documents or materials that trainees
will use when fully trained. On-the-job training has a general reputation as most effective for vocational work.
Off-the-job training takes place away from normal work situations — implying that the employee does not count as a directly productive
worker while such training takes place. Off-the-job training has the advantage that it allows people to get away from work and
concentrate more thoroughly on the training itself. This type of training has proven more effective[citation needed] in inculcating
concepts and ideas. Training differs from exercise in that people may dabble in exercise as an occasional activity for fun. Training has specific goals
of improving one's capability, capacity, and performance.
In organizational development, the related field of training and development (T & D) deals with the design and delivery of learning to improve
performance, skills, or knowledge within organizations.
In some organizations the term Learning and Development is used instead of Training and Development in order to emphasise the importance of
learning for the individual and the organization. In other organizations, the term Human Resource Development is used.
Electronic learning (or e-Learning or eLearning) is a type of education where the medium of instruction is computer technology. No in-person
interaction may take place in some instances. E-learning is used interchangeably in a wide variety of contexts. In companies, it refers to the
strategies that use the company network to deliver training courses to employees. In the USA, it is defined as a planned teaching/learning
experience that uses a wide spectrum of technologies, mainly Internet or computer-based, to reach learners at a distance. Lately in most
Universities, e-learning is used to define a specific mode to attend a course or programmes of study where the students rarely, if ever, attend
face-to-face for on-campus access to educational facilities, because they study online.
Source References and additional reading:
- Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online." (2007).
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
- Webopedia. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
- Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia
