the effectiveness of a training program in developing professional competencies for technical teachers at the secondary level in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  The study aimed to identify the effectiveness of a training program in developing professional competencies for technical teachers at the secondary level in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In this study, the researcher followed the following two approaches to achieve the goals of her study, namely the descriptive analytical approach and the semi-experimental approach. The study community consists of all the technical parameters in the Education Directorate in the city of Riyadh, who work in secondary schools for the year 1441/1442 AH. The researcher chose the study sample intentionally and consisted of about (22) technical teachers in secondary schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. To achieve the goals of the study, the researcher prepared the study tools which were represented in achievement test and the observation card. The study reached many results, the most important of which are that all evaluations issued from the research sample to the extent of availability of vocational competencies were in their entirety high, and this may be due to the nature of the training courses that the teachers get before joining the work, and also may be due to the nature of the study in BSC. The ratio of modified plaque gain ranged between (307 and 1 - 318 and 1), which are all high levels of the specified efficacy criterion (1.2), which confirms the effectiveness of the training program based on professional competencies with the experimental group of sample individuals, and therefore the researcher recommended the need to adopt the existing training programs On the basis of competencies in training female teachers, because they have demonstrated an improvement in female teachers ’performance clearly, if their performance is compared before implementing this program.