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The effective continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers is an important factor for reforming the vocational education and training system. While Lithuanian vocational teachers are inclined to professional development, the process provides no appreciable results. However, analysis and evaluation of CPD practice and impact is complex. In seeking to understand some of the complexities, a framework of eight CPD models was applied and surveyed with a stratified sample of 346 vocational teachers. ...

It is assumed that the content of the broad concept of educational interaction consists of many related components and competences that determine the quality of vocational education and training. In order to understand the educational interaction, the vocational teachers' experience in communicating with modern students, their behaviors and insights better, the qualitative research was conducted. The research design was based on five group interviews with 48 vocational teachers from vocational education and traini...