This study is a survey of special activities in public technical high schools in Hiroshima Prefecture. A questionnaire was carried out about Special Activities, the Period for Integrated Studies, Moral Education and Extracurricular Activities in May, 2014.
The analysis of the survey results has revealed the present situations, as well as some of the issues, of the abovementioned activities in public technical high schools in Hiroshima Prefecture.
(1) Attainments
・Implementation of special activities in conjunction with school management plan
・Provision of career guidance making full use of the characteristics of technical high school
・Arrangement of internship program to cultivate a view of a career and work
・Establishment of mixed homerooms beyond the boundaries of departments
・Effective utilization of the short homeroom
(2) Issues
・Conception of new ideas about how to use SHR
・Development of teachers’ professional competence
・Introduction of a tutorial system
・Reexamination and restructuring of segregation of duties
・Further promotion of mixed homerooms