An-Najah Staff

This study aims at determining the problems of the public Industrial schools in the West Bank from the teachers' viewpoint. It also aims at identifying the effect of the variables of (gender, age, teaching field, years of experience, school site, teachers' residence, qualification, salary, and teacher's major) on the public Industrial schools' problems in the West Bank. The study was - conducted on the whole population, which consisted of (164) teachers, Engineers, technicians and principals. (120) questionnaires, (%73.2) of whole population, were returned back and statistically analyzed. The questionnaire consisted of (62) items distributed on the following six domains to measure the following problems: financing, the organization and systems, the curricula problem domain, the teachers! trainers problems domain, the building and machines, and the parents and students. Alpha- Formula was used to compute the questionnaire reliability, which reached (90.92) which is appropriate for the purposes of the study. Data were analyzed using the (SPSS), the means, the percentages, dependent t- test (ANOVA), and Scheefe test for the post comparison between means. The findings of the study were: The degree of the problems of the public Industrial schools in the West Bank was high (74.4%). The domain of the parents and students problems came in the first rank (74.4%), while the curricula problems domain came in the last rank (65.4%). - The teachers agreed that the most appropriate suggestion to solve the problems in the public Industrial schools is the availability of the fund to modernize and maintain the machines (16.7%). The suggestion that took the least percentage was the activating of the production and service Activities (1.6%). - There was no significant difference at (α =0.05) in the problems Industrial schools in the West Bank districts due to the variables of age, place of residence, field of teaching, years of experience, and school site. However, there was no significant difference due to the qualification, salary, and major. But there was a significant difference due to degree and in-favor of master degree. - In the light of these findings, the researcher recommended that: 1- Industrial schools should be financed to purchase and maintain machines and instruments. 2- There should be coordination between the authority that supervises the Industrial education and the universities and public education to agree on the conditions for the admission 10 universities and the continuation of higher education. 3 - Attention should be given to the curricula so that it can be appropriate for the requirements of modem technology. 4- Instructive programs should be held to explain to the tenth grade the importance of the Industrial education in building the national economy. 5- Further studies should be conducted on the other streams of the vocational education such as the commercial and the agricultural streams. 6- Similar studies should be conducted on Industrial education in Gaza Strip to compare between its results and the results of this study.