INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR TEACHERS OF TECHNICAL SUBJECTS

The paper is focused on practice of students in frame of training for future technical subject teachers, which is called "Clinical School of Technical Spare-Time and Creative Activity". This clinical school is focused on enhancing the practical way of teaching students in the field of spare-time and creative activities. That means in the field where students are usually prepared mainly theoretically but not much practically. It is a very specific kind of practice which is focused on students of technical education pedagogy and it is realized in frame of technical activities carried out by the Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem for pupils of basic and high schools called "School of Technics". Students are able to apply pedagogical competencies under supervision of experienced specialists in area of organization and managing spare-time activity. Pupils of basic and high schools are subsequently able to try non-traditional technologies. Activity is realized as a practice of students in conditions that are unavailable at basic and high schools due to lack of technical materials and also specialized human resources. The contribution gives essential information about the activity, its preparation and realization. As an example, there is a short description of one of the courses, completed during the activity "School of Technics", called "Electronic Constructions". Tuition, thanks to innovation of the practical training and the use of the project and problem teaching method, is more efficient and can better prepare students, both professionally as well as in terms of expected competencies of future teachers.