Abstract In the ever-changing environment of vocational education and training (VET), an individual teacher can create a learning environment which can inhibit or promote the success of a student. Their encouragement of small successes, acknowledgement of study challenges and practical guidance can assist students to push forward to achieve their goal. Conversely, an unsupportive teacher’s actions can diminish a student’s significance and build barriers to success, causing distress which can influence not only current study direction but undermine any possible notions of future learning. This study aims to investigate the attitudes and practices of teachers across two schools within a large Australian VET organisation. These responses have been collated and examined to describe and understand the practices and attitudes as well as the challenges and limitations to practice, with the intention of investigating attributes which are critical for teachers to display in order to motivate student retention and engagement in vocational education.

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了解主要公共VET提供商中VET老师对学生支持的态度

摘要在瞬息万变的职业教育与培训（VET）环境中，单个教师可以创建一个学习环境，从而抑制或促进学生的成功。他们鼓励小成就，承认学习挑战和实践指导，可以帮助学生推进实现自己的目标。相反，不支持老师的行为会削弱学生的重要性并为成功树立障碍，造成困扰，这不仅会影响当前的学习方向，还会破坏未来学习的任何可能观念。这项研究旨在调查大型澳大利亚职业教育与培训机构中两所学校的教师的态度和做法。