Педагогические науки / 2. Проблемы подготовки специалистов

Romanov V.A., Egorov A.I.

Tula Leo Tolstoy State Pedagogical University, Russia

 

Elaboration  of Students’ Professional Training Components

in Pedagogical University

The main distinctive feature of present-day situation in Higher Education system and, in particular in teachers training system, lies in the fact that various social groups feel somewhat disappointed in its results and clearly realize the necessity to revise its aims, tasks, content and curricula. The central point of this problem is the ways and means of elaboration of students professional training. Being important didactical factors, they are determined by the objective requirements of present-day Higher Education.   

The way can be defined as the direction of activity, development, pattern of conduct. By the ways of professional training elaboration we understand the analysis of cognitive process by the element, consideration of training process, designing of educational process with desired characteristics and practical realization of the process in study under present-day conditions.    

The means is understood as a technique or type of action aimed at achieving preset goals in teachers training. To the means we refer pedagogical prevention (search for optimum pedagogical systems, including means and forms for training intensification, new educational technologies, problem-based teaching, computerization), pedagogical diagnostics (systematic control and evaluation of training results, analysis of students training results and consideration of failures), pedagogical “therapy” (measures to prevent educational retardation: extra classes, additional courses, etc).

Pedagogical analysis of the issues under consideration leads to the necessity to view pedagogical activity by the element: in terms of pedagogical experiment, expert assessment, methods of student and staff psycho diagnosis,  and finally assemble all these observations and insights into a complex picture of educational process, when the utmost importance is placed not on the external peculiarities of pedagogical process but on the generative mechanisms, essential interconnections of educational components, moving forces of student’s  personal development and social relations, etc.    

Training in Pedagogical University is carried out according to the specified field of education, professional direction (profiles) with appropriate Discipline Steering Programme and Principal Educational Programme. All these programmes require 4 – 5 year training  course of 300 credit points, 72 of which are dedicated to practical work.   

The restricted volume of the article makes it impossible to present the Principal Educational Programme, Discipline Steering Programmes,  disciplines course schedules of the Basic Component and Elective Component with corresponding commentaries.  

Analysis of the Discipline Steering Programmes and structure of disciplines course schedules as well as current educational practice show that neither  the Principal Educational Programme nor the Discipline Steering Programmes completely take into account special requirements to the quality and contents of professional training, though they are oriented to the integration of professional disciplines of the graduate chair and general scientific disciplines of Pedagogical University. Unfortunately they do not possess the mechanism for practical realization  of the choice of students professional training content with due account for their individual abilities and demands. And, finally, study of the disciplines in basic and elective components is not always based on modern educational technologies with orientation to intensification of students cognitive activity, their independence, their search for the personal respect in education.    

A necessary condition for successful training of a teacher of the 21 century is the specification of the content of a particular type of activity for which the student is  prepared by University and the graduate chair. 

Perfection of teachers professional training, increasing quality of University and school technical facilities require new approaches to solving the problem of training teachers for primary school and for different subjects in secondary school. That task is impossible without scientifically, methodically, pedagogically, sociologically and psycho-physiologically based  analysis of teacher’s professional activity  and teachers training system.  

Authors’ analysis of shortcomings in teachers theoretical and practical training in Leo Tolstoy TSPU, revealing of correlations of these shortcomings with different aspects of their training, determination of actual reasons of these shortcomings gives a certain model-forming information of teachers functions in professional sphere and helps to establish the ways for further improvements of their professional training in the process of adoption of educational programme in the University.

Recent directive documents of the Ministry of Education and Science point out that teachers training level still does not meet regulatory requirements and social demands. The main shortcomings are related to low-leveled practical skills in organization of classes and extracurricular activity, which results in inability to creatively apply  theoretical knowledge in actual psychological and pedagogical situation and condition, to carry out a practical educational event as well as interaction with children and their parents.

We should also mention underestimation in developing teachers’ organizational qualities as, low level of their professional and psychological training as a result of poor usage of pedagogical and psychological background and progressive methods and forms of instruction.     

Our teaching experience supports experimental data earlier obtained in the University: students retain 70% of previously acquired complex skills in a week’s time, and only 40% in a month’s time.

Analyzing these data and taking into account the practically-proven fact that the further work can be successfully carried out if the students retain  at least 50% of skills we can recommend the efficient timing for conducting classes (unsupervised work) with homogeneous tasks – 50% will be retained if the time gap between classes does not exceed 3 weeks (21 days).  

The attempts are made to bridge the gap between the quality of teachers training and the demands of rapidly developing society for which the teachers are prepared with the use of outdated forms and methods of education, heading along the way of formalization and simplification. We have to admit that current teachers training practice unfortunately lacks a balanced system, very often it is replaced by the simple coaching for examinations and credits.  

The results of recent term, graduation and state examinations as well as the analysis of the educational activity of graduate chairs show that teachers’ professional competence level does not meet present day requirements to the full extent.  Not all the students get high results at examinations and credits, though they succeed quite well at the graduate and university wide chairs.    

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