scholarly journals Developing soft skills of music teachers through involvement in student project office activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-275
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Dubrovskii ◽  
Yaroslav A. Gorbik ◽  
Larisa A. Pidzhoyan ◽  
Irina V. Efremova
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Legal Documents

  The aim of this paper is to analyze the results of soft skills development of music teachers through involvement in student project office activities. The content analysis of normative and legal documents regulating professional training and professional activity of a music teacher resulted in the following soft skills content for this category of employees: communicative competences, self-management skills, critical thinking, and managerial competences. The study of music teachers' soft skills development in the process of their involvement in project activities was carried out through a pedagogical experiment. 76 students (3-4 years) of the Institute of History and Culture, 15 teachers and 12 social partners took part in the research. The conducted research confirmed the effectiveness of developing soft skills of future music educators in the process of involving students in project management. The implementation of this activity began with the creation of student project office, which is a necessary tool to organize project management in the student environment.  

scholarly journals POTENTIAL OF MEDIA EDUCATION IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF MUSIC TEACHERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (43) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Zhang Tanglin
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Modern Music

         The article examines pedagogical activity as a way of social and cultural practice of the individual, which implements the tasks of preserving national traditions, adapting and regulating the process of professional development of a future teacher. The modernization of the educational system of Ukraine is determined by the tendencies of European integration, which can be considered an essential lever of success not only for the economic and political transformation of society, but also for strategic changes in the educational policy of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the practical importance of media education, taking into account modern trends in the modernization of the educational system in Ukraine in the era of globalization of the world educational space. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set: to consider the role of media education in the professional activities of future music education specialists, to substantiate media education as a component of general education, and media literacy and media competence as a component of the professional and general culture of a modern music teacher; identify ways to solve the problem of the need for media education in the professional activity of a future musician teacher; to reveal and analyze promising directions for increasing the level of media educational training of future music teachers in social relations, new dimensions of his self-realization; substantiate the conclusions and directions for further consideration of the selected problem. The main methods used in the study are comparative, analytical, systemic and structural. Conclusions. We consider media education as a component of ICT, which includes, on the one hand, knowledge, skills and abilities of their application, on the other hand, media literacy, media competence and media culture. We associate the training of future teachers of musical disciplines using ICT tools with the need to improve the state educational standard by introducing new specialties, the need for which is dictated by the current state of art education and culture. The practical implementation of media education requires a change in scientific views on the need to introduce media education as a component of general education, and media literacy and media competence as an integral part of the professional and general culture of a modern music teacher. The solution to the problem posed also depends on the understanding of the value of professional activity, which occurs only through the actualization of the processes of self-awareness by future teachers-musicians, revealing themselves in the search for the meaning of artistic values.          Key words: media education, modernization of professional training, musical and pedagogical activity, information and communication technologies, future teacher-musician.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF STUDENTS – FUTURE MUSIC TEACHERS AND MUSIC SUPERVISORS OF PRESCHOOL INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 454
Author(s):  
Vasyl Kovalchuk ◽  
Tetiana Ageykina-Starchenko ◽  
Natalia Chorna ◽  
Svitlana Iskra
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Special Instrument ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The reform of Ukrainian education has put forward new requirements for the training of teachers, in particular, future music teachers and music supervisors of preschool institutions. There was a need to revise traditional teaching methods, update the content of education and change emphasis in the educational process from cognitive to emotional. One of the factors affecting the professional training of a music teacher is emotional intelligence as integrated phenomenon that combines emotional and intellectual abilities into a single developing (dynamic) system, which gives the opportunity to distinguish cognitive-emotional, empathy-creative (artistic) and regulatory-behavioral components. The purpose of the article is the theoretical argumentation of the emotional intelligence concept and structure, the approbation results presentation of emotional intelligence formation methods by future music teachers and music supervisors of preschool institutions in the process of studying special music disciplines "Basic Special Instrument", "Voice Staging", "Choral Conducting". During the experimental research, which was conducted by students of the Preschool Education And Musical Art Faculty, various methods of diagnosing emotional intelligence were used, special methods and methods of its formation were created ("Self-knowledge", "Emotional infection", "Physical actions" methods; "What am I?", "Show your emotion", "Diary of emotions" techniques). It is proved that the implementation of the proposed methodological aspects into the educational process influences positive changes of this quality development, which, in turn, will ensure the successful adaptation of the future music teacher in his professional activity.

scholarly journals Soft Skills for a Successful Engineering Graduate Career

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
A. P. Isaev ◽  
L. V. Plotnikov
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Industrial Enterprises

This article focuses on soft skills that are needed for young engineers starting their professional careers. The objectives of the study were: 1) to determine soft skills of young engineers that are most in demand among employers; 2) to assess the importance of soft skills for the successful start of the graduates’ professional career; 3) to determine the necessary conditions for soft skills development in the engineering bachelor’s degree educational process. The methods of expert assessment, written survey, oral conversation, decomposition, statistical and structural-logical analysis were used in the study. A review of foreign and domestic studies focusing on the analysis and assessment of soft skills needed in the work of engineering and technical personnel in various fields of activity is made. The results of an empirical study showed which soft skills are assessed by young engineers and heads of industrial enterprises as highly demanded for university graduates’ successful career start. On their basis, an optimal grouping of soft skills was compiled, which meets the requirements of professional training for many types of engineering activities. The authors adduce the results of a comparative analysis of the highlighted soft skills, based on the assessments of their importance made by teachers of engineering disciplines, heads of departments and engineers of industrial enterprises, as well as senior students of engineering bachelor’s degree. It was found that representatives of industrial enterprises, especially managers more highly assess the importance of soft skills for the successful professional activity of graduates of an engineering university in comparison with teachers and students. An explanation of the discrepancies in the obtained assessments of soft skills is proposed. The difficulties and necessary conditions for soft skills development in engineering bachelor degree educational process are determined. The article substantiates the key role of the studentcentered approach to teaching and the corresponding teaching and learning technologies for the successful development of soft skills on the basis of different disciplines, including specialized and practice-oriented ones for the engineering profile. The authors formulate the conclusions about the features of soft skills development, which can be used to improve the university training of engineering personnel.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF AESTHETIC CULTURE OF A FUTURE MUSIC TEACHER WITH THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (195) ◽  
pp. 167-171
Author(s):  
Maryna Vyshnevetska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Professional Activities

The paper considers one of the relevant issues of introducing and using digital technologies by a future music teacher. It is proven that the realm of aesthetic culture of a future music teacher requires the introduction of innovative forms of education and their active application. It is substantiated that digital technologies are a means of professional development of future music teachers in the process of professional training and become an integral part of society at all levels and centers, and digital competence is recognized as one of the priorities in educational activities. The paper emphasizes that modern education is the mastery of electronic, multimedia textbooks and guides, e-courses, interactive complexes, therefore learning with the use of digital technologies is not a novelty but a requirement of the time. The structural components of aesthetic culture such as aesthetic consciousness, aesthetic activity, aesthetic self-organization are analyzed and singled out, and the author believes that such components are designed to implement strategic ideas in the field of education and culture into public life, to develop values, to apply and use modern technologies in professional activities, and this requires active skills in using ICT, as well as information, music and technological competencies, critical thinking, behavioral strategies, response to changing needs and interests of society. In this paper, the author considers digital, music and computer technologies as a means of professional development of a future music teacher in the process of professional training, because the use of such technologies increases motivation for professional activity and develops positive beliefs in selected music disciplines and areas of music research. The paper studies the SAMR approach that allows assessing the level of digital technologies use in educational institutions for teaching and learning. A review of current trends in digital technologies organization and application has identified their most common forms in the training of future music teachers and proven the effectiveness of their use, which affects the development of pedagogical mastery of music teachers.

Characteristics of Early Childhood and Elementary General Music Methods Coursework for Preservice Music Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 105708372110245
Author(s):  
Karen Salvador ◽  
Mara E. Culp
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
General Music ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Music Methods ◽  
Elementary General Music

Although many music teacher candidates begin university studies planning to teach secondary ensembles, most will ultimately be certified to teach younger children and may be called to do so. The purpose of this study was to examine how music teacher education programs prepare preservice music educators to teach music to children from birth through elementary school through coursework. We emailed survey invitations to representatives from 512 institutions accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music to prepare music educators. We received 134 usable responses (response rate = 26%). Nearly all respondents offered elementary general music methods (EGMM), and over three quarters required EGMM for all students in initial licensure programs. Only about one in ten responding institutions offered early childhood music methods (ECMM). We describe findings on EGMM and ECMM course structures, content, and materials as well as the employment status, degree background, and other qualifications of the person who typically taught this coursework

scholarly journals Insights of project managers into the problems in project management

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Vincent Livesey
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Delphi Study ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Delphi Panel ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Team Management ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Importance Index

A Delphi study using project managers who had managed projects in excess of $500 million was used to confirm the significance and frequency of problems resulting from the nature of projects. Using the results obtained from the Delphi study a ranking of the problems experienced in these projects was obtained by calculating a Relative Importance Index. Additionally, the Delphi panel members were asked their views concerning the need for traditional project management skills (hard skills) and team management skills (soft skills) as project size increased from below $50 million to over $500 million. A substantial increase in the need for both skills was indicated with the increase in the need for soft skills being the most significant.

Aesthetic needs in professional activity of future teacher of music: theoretical aspect of the problem

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vyshnevetska Maryna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Factor

The paper considers the issue of developing aesthetic needs of a future music teacher in the course of professional training. The author defines notions such as culture, aesthetic culture, aesthetic activity as well as explores the essence of the notion of an aesthetic need of a future music teacher. The paper substantiates the role of art and aesthetic activity as the main factor for aesthetic needs development. The study reveals that there is a reason for the interest to human needs since a large number of branches in material and spiritual culture of society depend on defining the nature of needs and trends in their development. The author emphasises that the functioning of all levels of human life requires needs that would meet human development both physically and emotionally, thus, there should be an aesthetic form of activity because it harmoniously combines both spiritual and functional aspects. The paper substantiates the role of art as the main factor for development of aesthetic needs that can be met in various activities, but it is in art that they find the greatest expression. The author supports the idea that art is a special area of human existence and it combines knowledge and communication, intelligence, a sense of morality, and imagination of people. Involvement of a person in art is a necessary condition for development of aesthetic consciousness since elevation of the spirit and actualization of an essential aesthetic force take place during the process of perception, experience and understanding of works of art. Art integrates a dialogue of a person with the world. Considering the concept of an aesthetic need, the author defines it as an internal need to comprehend certain aesthetic values, development of certain skills, because an aesthetic need is based on aesthetic feelings that are embodied in aesthetic tastes and consist of individual selection of those aesthetic phenomena and objects that best suit views and interests of a person. The paper emphasises that an aesthetic need embodies richness and diversity of spirituality of a person who seeks to fulfill their potential in all fullness of life and if a person has a need for personal fulfillment, they will find the strength and ways to do that. It has been proved that an aesthetic need has semantic and aesthetic properties and has an artistic and perceptual nature, which provides an opportunity to obtain pleasure, enjoyment, joy, delight from beauty. It has been established that the process of perception or direct creativity of art are characterized by a combination of a goal and means, where the means develop into the goal, and the goal is the process itself when spiritual, functional and aesthetic needs of the individual are met, i.e. a person reaches a certain level in their activity when they create products and forms of cultural activity that meet more and more of their needs. The paper outlines that an emerging aesthetic need motivates a music teacher to create conditions and means for achieving satisfaction with their own creative activities, because an aesthetic need is a desire of a future music teacher to harmonize the internal and external world as well as development of aesthetic awareness of the world: to perceive and appreciate the beauty, to live and create according to the laws of beauty.

scholarly journals Reimagining Music Teacher Collaboration: The Culture of Professional Learning Communities as Professional Development Within Schools and Districts

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Sharyn L. Battersby
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Professional Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Teacher Collaboration ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Collaborative Community

Music educators are continually seeking new ways to better their practice and improve student learning. Professional learning communities are a type of collaborative community that when administered successfully provide a forum for music educators to become active participants in both their own learning and that of their students. While the notion of professional learning communities has been around since the 1990s, they have received renewed attention more recently due to the adaptation and implementation of Danielson’s popular Framework for Teaching, which has been implemented in many school districts across the country. Teachers facing the challenge of reshaping the culture of their music programs and seeing their initiative sustained will devise elements that will become embedded in that (school) culture. Supportive and shared leadership, shared values and vision, and collective learning are just some of the attributes that can contribute to student learning and the professional development of music teachers.

scholarly journals Diagnostic results of the acmeological culture of future music teachers in the process of singing

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
Zhang Chun
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Diagnostic Technique ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Singing Activity ◽  
Expert Assessments ◽  
Teacher Professional

The article presents the results of the diagnosis of acmeological culture of future music teachers in the process of singing. Based on the developed system of criteria and indicators of the structural components of the studied phenomenon (motivational-value, cognitive-developmental, communicative-heuristic and creative-projective), the contents of the phased diagnostic technique of the ascertaining experiment, which consists of pedagogical conversations, oral questioning, questioning, testing, essay – annotations, creative tasks, typical types of conducting and choral activities, expert assessments, mathematical methods of data processing. The levels of formation of the acmeological culture of future music teachers are determined, their substantive characteristics are formulated. Ukraine's accession to a single European educational space declares new requirements for professional training of music teachers. Increasingly, it is becoming necessary to focus higher education on the training of professionals capable of professional mobility, rapid adaptation to new educational conditions, self-realization and self-improvement throughout life – individuals with high levels of acmeological culture. According to the results of the ascertainment experiment, the calculation of the arithmetic mean of quantitative indicators by certain structural components was performed: motivational-value, cognitive-developmental, communicative-heuristic and creative-design. Of particular importance is the problem of formation of acmeological culture in the singing activity of future music teachers. It is the high professionalism of vocal-choral activity of the music teacher that not only enhances the prestige of the teacher's profession, but also provides a peculiarity of personal influence of the teacher-professional on the spiritual development of students by means of vocal-choral art.

Shame in Music Education: Starting the Conversation and Developing Resilience

2020 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Mara E. Culp ◽  
Sara K. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Resilience Theory ◽  
Negative Behaviors ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
And Coping

Feelings of shame may contribute to music teachers and music teacher educators being unwilling to discuss needs and concerns for fear of being judged or seen as inadequate. Shame or fear of feeling shame can also lead individuals to withdraw or perpetuate negative behaviors. Although shame is often a natural part of the human experience, the diverse nature of the content in music education, the wide variety of learners in various music education spaces, and music teachers’ beliefs and practices can be sources of shame among music teachers. This article aims to start a conversation about shame in music education and help music educators and music teacher educators feel empowered to use shame resilience theory as a means of understanding and coping with feelings of shame.

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