scholarly journals BLENDED LEARNINGAS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTOF OUT-OF-SCHOOL EDUCATION TEACHERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-148
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Mohilevska ◽  
Olena Sibil ◽  
Oksana Barlit
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Education ◽  
The One ◽  
Teachers Professional Development ◽  
Effective Models ◽  
Out Of School

The paper is dedicated to the problem of out-of-school education teachers’ professional development in the conditions of growing requirements to such education quality. The authors of the article note that the professional development of teaching employees of out-of-school education institutions requires a review of existing tools and the search for new approaches. In the current conditions, advanced training courses for the teachers of out-of-school education institutions remain to be the prevailing form, but along with the development of e-education, increase of the freedom of a teacher to choose the forms, methods, terms of professional growth, they need a certain "reset". In a situation of quarantine restrictions, the qualification advancement courses are carried out in a remote format, but it has a number of pitfalls which impact the training effectiveness. Mastering the methods of reflection of one’s own activity by teachers allows to reduce this influence and to increase the quality of professional refresher training. The authors of the article focused their view on the introduction of blended learning during the qualification advancement courses, as such that should provide positive dynamics in the professional development of the teachers of out-of-school education institutions. Researchers see as its most effective models: the "flipped classroom", the self-blend model and the model of enriched virtual learning. They point to a number of advantages of these models compared to traditional learning, which include: flexibility, variability in the organization of the educational process and forms of presentation of educational material, as well as their impact on increasing the motivation of students to learn. The issues of increasing the requirements for the teacher's activity, which should offer optimal and rational methodological techniques and technological solutions for constructive interaction with students not only for the convenience of monitoring their learning, but also so that they can feel constant support, are considered separately. The authors of the article came to the conclusion that in each case the optimally selected model of the blended learning is the one that contains potential opportunities for professional development of the heads of out-of-school education clubs. The article provides statistics data for its confirmation.

USE OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY AS AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF ART INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (195) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Hanna Karas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Artistic Styles

The article is devoted to the use of interdisciplinarity as an innovative approach in the educational process of art institutions of higher education on the example of studying the discipline «Evolution of artistic styles in art» included in educational master's programs. This discipline is based on the theory and practice of professional development of a teacher-musician, who provides the Master of Arts education process, shapes their professional development necessary for their future musical and pedagogical creativity, skills, and pedagogical culture. The content of the discipline consists of the introduction of artistic styles’ scientific and theoretical fundamentals to the future specialists. The objectives of the course are 1) the theoretical generalization of the historical experience of the evolution of artistic styles, 2) acquaintance with the best examples of artistic culture, representing different styles and directions, 3) mastering complex problems of stylistic analysis. The aim of the course is the establishment of a strategy for a professional growth as part of the vocational training of masters in the following educational areas «Secondary education. Musical Art» and «Musical Art»; mastering the scientific and theoretical foundations of the artistic styles’ analysis as a formative student course of the music and pedagogical education in higher education. The interdisciplinary approach can be implemented in two main formats. A. Kolot believes that with the help of the first format he builds bridges between different sciences, brings them together on an informal basis without violating their individuality and uniqueness. In this format, the discipline «Evolution of artistic styles in art» «builds bridges» with such disciplines as: philosophy, history, foreign languages, general psychology, culturology, sociology, art culture, aesthetics. In the second format, interdisciplinarity is presented as a real tool for unifying sciences, and the emergence of integrative products. In this format the course «Evolution of Artistic Styles in Art» involves an organic combination of such disciplines as history and theory of music, theater, ballet, art history, philosophy, art culture and literature, analysis of musical form, choral class, music psychology, and others. Therefore, we propose to define the student course «Evolution of artistic styles in art» as a complex, interdisciplinary field of knowledge and consider the application of an interdisciplinary approach in the practice of a teacher of artistic institutions.

scholarly journals Exploring Change in EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Professional Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mohammadi ◽  
Khaled Moradi
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Professional Development Programs

AbstractContinuous professional development (CPD) is important for teachers in attaining sustainable education. Accordingly, exploring teachers’ perceptions could be a significant endeavor as teachers’ beliefs impact their classroom practices, thereby, impacting student learning and, thus have educational implications. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate this fundamental issue via establishing professional development workshops to train teachers in order to promote sustainable professional growth. It examined 86 EFL teachers’ beliefs and attitudes toward CPD before and after attending workshops for professional development. The data were collected through a questionnaire and a follow-up interview. Paired-samples t-tests were run to measure differences between responses of pre and post surveys. Moreover, raw frequencies and percentages were calculated in order to prioritize the items the teachers selected in each variable. The findings demonstrate that beliefs about CPD can change. Survey data collected before and after professional development workshops revealed a statistical significant shift in EFL teachers’ beliefs. This finding was also supported by semi-structured interviews. In addition, the results also revealed that the participants perceived customized professional development programs with professional development framework as a beneficial tool to be included in the professional development programs. The study may have some pedagogical implications to be utilized in the educational process directed at sustainable professional development.

scholarly journals FUTURE MASTERS’ PROFESSIONALISM DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROCESS OF PRACTICAL TRAINING IN THE INSTITUTIONS OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (194) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Tetiana Kravtsova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
School Education ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Individual Support ◽  
Conscious Choice ◽  
The Future ◽  
Main Component ◽  
Pedagogical Relations ◽  
Independent Work ◽  
Out Of School

The article is devoted to the problem of future masters’ professionalism development in the process of practical training in the institutions of out-of-school education. Based on the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, the understanding of the concept of professionalism has been clarified, the peculiarities of practice in a multidisciplinary institution of out-of-school education have been revealed, the requirements to the bases of practical training of future masters of education, educational program 011 Educational, pedagogical sciences (Out-of-school education) It has been found out that the future teachers’ practical training acts as an integrating main component of personal and professional development of the specialist, the link between theoretical training and independent work in the establishments and institutions of out-of-school education. Providing performance of various tasks, which include: acquaintance with the general directions of work in a multidisciplinary institution of out-of-school education; creation of an individual educational trajectory of the applicant of out-of-school education according to abilities of talents and gifts of children and youth on the basis of psychological and pedagogical diagnostics; development of curricula, calendar and lesson plans for group and club work, development of scenarios and script plans for collective and mass events, which are included in the annual work plan of the institution of out-of-school education. It has been specified that the professionalism of the future master will be reflected in the following results of practical training: the ability to recognize and take into account the diversity of students, the ability to provide individual support in the educational process; awareness of different contexts in which training, upbringing and development of students of out-of-school education can take place; ability to implement subject-subject interaction with different participants of the educational process at different levels; the ability to contribute to the formation of a general culture of personality, socialization, conscious choice and development of additional educational programs, using a variety of forms, techniques, methods and means of teaching; to master the norms of pedagogical relations in the process of designing and implementing educational activities, search, sharing, application of innovations and creativity in the educational process.

scholarly journals “School for Life “– Theoretical Background and Analyisis of Croatian Reform in School Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Rona Bušljeta ◽  
Marko Kardum
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Education ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Developmental Age ◽  
Current Reform ◽  
The One ◽  
Contemporary Education

Objections to the fact that education is, on the one hand, overburdened by theory and separate from practice or, on the other hand, completely separate from theory can be found in contemporary researches and theory of education. These objections also imply the problem of selecting the content, as well as the way of teaching and formulating the desired outcomes arising from the education process. One of the possible solutions to this problem is the concept of “school for life”, which, in the pursuit of John Dewey’s philosophy of education, leads to the abolition of the false dichotomy of theory and practice in education. Contemporary education can, therefore, no longer be understood as a process in which passive subjects acquire knowledge, but as activity of subjects that by experimenting and innovating adjust the content that comes from experience and ultimately applies them again to everyday life. In this way, the outcomes of the educational process should be understood not as dogmatic reproductions of existing knowledge, but as an entity’s ability to participate fully in the life of the community to which it belongs, including lifelong education, participating in the process of acquiring work experience and active, responsible and constructive action within community. The demand for meaningful education related to the subject’s developmental age, its interests and close to its everyday life experiences is also shaped by the current reform of the Croatian educational system, which is developing under the concept of “school for life”. The aim of this paper is to establish the theoretical framework of such a request, to analyse specific Croatian case and to examine how close to the contemporary tendencies in education Croatian reform in school education has really come to.

Theoretical Rationale for Designing a Blended Learning Teachers' Professional Development Program

2014 ◽  
pp. 673-688
Author(s):  
Charalambos Mouzakis ◽  
Haralampos Tsaknakis ◽  
Chrysanthi Tziortzioti
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Professional Development Program ◽  
Theoretical Rationale ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

This chapter explores the underlying theoretical principles that provided the basis for the design and implementation of a professional development program for informatics teachers in Greece. A blended learning model was adopted combining live workshop meetings, face-to-face in-lab training sessions and online videoconferencing sessions. The framework of constructivism and experiential learning was used as a theoretical rationale for the combination of face-to-face activities with online learning experiences. It is shown that a blended learning design based on the principles of constructivism and experiential learning pedagogy can provide vital tools for the creation of an active environment for informatics teachers' professional development. Also, it appears that a promising direction for further investigation, in terms of improving the learning outcome based on the same theoretical principles, is the more detailed design of the sequence of learning activities and a closer look at the development of communities of practice among teachers.

scholarly journals READINESS OF TECHNICAL SPECIALTIES STUDENTS FOR BLENDED LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
O.V KISEL ◽  
◽  
E.A GASANENKO ◽  
A.I DUBSKIKH ◽  
A.V BUTOVA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
The One ◽  
State Educational

In the context of the Federal State Educational Standard implementation, the need for changes in the content of the educational paradigm emerged. The need for effective teaching approaches capable of increasing the effectiveness of teaching a foreign language at a non-language university, has prompted researchers to study the possibility of blended learning as an effective approach that contributes to the development of technical specialties students’ readiness for blended learning, the formation of various skills, contributing to the successful mastering of a foreign language course. The purpose of this research is to study students' attitude toward the main characteristics of blended learning. To achieve this goal in NMSTU a study based on quantitative data was conducted, with thirty students as participants. The research was carried out on the basis of questionnaires. The authors of the article substantiate the need to introduce a new approach into the learning process, which, on the one hand, is innovative and, on the other, problematic, as it requires a deep analysis, evaluation, creation of practical methods for implementing and developing this type of learning. In this regard, the team of authors offers a discussion and scientific understanding of psychological and pedagogical concepts and phenomena associated with technological trends in the educational process, the design of new educational courses, and the effectiveness of blended learning.

scholarly journals PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AS A PREMISE FOR TEACHER’S LEADERSHIP

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Remigijus Bubnys ◽  
Natalija Kauneckienė
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Flexible Structures ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Group Activities ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

<p>Strategic documents on education emphasize learning leadership, discuss teachers’ activities related to continuous personal improvement in professional activities: by involvement in improvement of school activities, conducting research, participating in specialized group activities, projects, collaboration with colleagues, etc. Innovative trends of teachers’ professional development are the basis for the development of efficient leadership: a challenge promoting to introduce changes in teachers’ improvement by creating new conditions and possibilities for both teachers and school leaders. It is important for school leaders to ensure coherence between personal and institutional development needs, to create flexible structures while organizing support for teachers and promoting fostering of continuous learning culture in the organization. The research aim is to analyze experiences of heads of departments with regard to teachers’ personal professional development possibilities in their professional activities. The results disclose that teachers ambiguously assess the activity of the head of the department: concrete, individual support, attention, encouragement are emphasised but teachers are against observation and assessment of their activities. This is related to several reasons: teachers’ attitude towards change processes, innovations in teachers’ professional development, competencies of heads of education departments, and general school culture. It is important to create conditions for manifestation of teacher leadership in schools, creating conditions for every teacher to continuously improve the educational process, develop personal competencies, actively and responsibly participate in group activities, get involved in school improvement processes. Middle level leaders, heads of departments, acting as mediators while implementing individual, group and organizational level tasks, promote the development of teachers’ competencies.</p>

scholarly journals VECTORS OF INTERACTION OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF TEENAGERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Sierykh L.V.
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Aesthetic Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Education ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Out Of School

In the provisions of the scientific article the author reveals the features of the interaction of general secondary and out-of-school education institutions in the aesthetic education of teenagers. The scientist offers the developed and tested vectors of the interaction of general secondary and out-of-school education in the aesthetic education of teenagers. The interaction is aimed at achieving this goal – the aesthetic education of teenagers and which provides for direct or indirect involvement in the educational process of the subjects of pedagogical interaction.The developed vectors violate the subject-subject relations in general secondary education institutions, indicate the subject-subject relations in out-of-school education institutions and combine (integrate) subject-subject relations in the specified institutions. Vectors allow us to trace the relationships between all subjects of educational activities and the environment (nature, architecture, production, the Internet, etc.), relationships with other institutions (subjects and objects), creative associations, unions, museums, philharmonics, theaters, studios, galleries, exhibitions, photo galleries, parks of culture and recreation, public organizations, libraries, Internet cafes, etc.), to support the subject-object and subject-subject relationships in the aesthetic education of teenagers.The scientific definition is analyzed and clarified «esthetic environment of interaction», which the author interprets as a pedagogically organized educational environment in which there is a dynamic pedagogical action, cooperation of the subjects of pedagogical interaction. These are the subjects of interaction of general secondary education institutions, out-of-school education institutions, subjects-object relations of other institutions. These relationships support the complex relationship of social phenomena-systems of general secondary and extracurricular education and enable the aesthetic education of teenagers, the development of society, the fulfillment of the social order, and so on. Key words: aesthetic education, aesthetic environment, interaction, interaction vectors, general secondary education institution, out-of-school world institution, teenagers. У положеннях наукової статті автор розкриває особливості взаємодії закладів загальної середньої та позашкільної освіти в естетичному вихованні підлітків. Науковець пропонує розроблені й апробовані вектори взаємодії закладів загальної середньої та позашкільної освіти в естетичному вихованні підлітків, які діють в естетичному середовищі. Вектори взаємодії спрямовані на досягнення означеної мети – естетичного виховання підлітків і в якій передбачається прямо або опосередковано залучення до освітньо-виховного процесу суб’єктів педагогічної взаємодії.Розроблені вектори порушують суб’єкт-суб’єктні відносини у закладах загальної середньої освіти, указує суб’єкт-суб’єктні відносини у закладах позашкільної освіти, поєднує (інтегрує) суб’єкт-суб’єк-тні відносини у означених закладах. Вектори дозволяють прослідкувати взаємозв’язки між усіма суб’єктами освітньо-виховної діяльності й навколишнім середовищем (природа, архітектура, вироб-ництво, інтернет тощо), взаємозв’язки з іншими інституціями (суб’єктами та об’єктами) (творчі об’єднання, спілки, музеї, філармонії, театри, студії, галереї, виставки, фотогалереї, парки культури та відпочинку, громадські організації, бібліотеки, інтернет-кафе тощо), підтримувати суб’єкт-об’єктні та суб’єкт-суб’єктні взаємовідносини в естетичному вихованні підлітків.Проаналізовано й уточнено наукову дефініцію «естетичне середовище взаємодії», яку автор трактує як педагогічно організоване виховне середовище, в якому відбувається динамічна педагогічна дія, співпраця суб’єктів педагогічної взаємодії. Суб’єктами взаємодії є заклади загальної середньої освіти, заклади позашкільної освіти, суб’єкт-об’єктні відносини інших інституцій. Ці відносини підтримують складний взаємозв’язок суспільних явищ-систем загальної середньої та позашкільної освіти і уможли-влюють естетичне виховання підлітків, розвиток суспільства, виконання соціального замовлення тощо. Ключові слова: естетичне виховання, естетичне середовище, взаємодія, вектори взаємодії, заклад загальної середньої освіти, заклад позашкільної освіти, підлітки.

scholarly journals DIGITAL TWIN OF THE POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION INSTITUTION AS AN ECOSYSTEM OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Tamara Sorochan ◽  
Lyubov Kartashova ◽  
Andrii Hurzhii
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

The article highlights new views on the possibilities of teachers’ professional development in postgraduate education system, due to the transition from learning management systems (LMS) to the next generation digital learning environment (NGDLE) as an ecosystem of digital tools to support the activities of subjects of the educational process. For the first time, the authors have revealed the signs of environmental friendliness of the NGDLE, have characterized it as an open, stable, safe and comfortable system for subjects of the educational process, providing information exchange between them, as well as between them and the world around them. Such digital ecosystems are created as digital twins of the real postgraduate education institutions for the efficient lifelong learning and teachers’ professional development. The practical implementation of these new generation concepts has been presented on the example of the Ukrainian Open University of Postgraduate Education, designed to organize and support non-formal postgraduate education. It has become a complex of digital solutions aimed at the implementation of EdTech with a priority in the successful functioning of virtual chairs, conducting the educational process (formal/non-formal education), professional development of students and teachers, attracting people from different regions of the country to training and teaching, highlighting innovative educational practice, etc.

Blended learning: expectations and reality

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
Galina Semenovna Kachalova ◽  
◽  
Tatyana Kamilyevna Bagavieva ◽  
Vladimir Vladimirovich Butakov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Chemistry Teachers ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Learning Development

The article discusses the problem of organizing blended learning in general education organizations. Blended learning, as one of the areas of informatization of education, has been used in foreign countries since the end of the 20th century, and in Russia it has been discussed quite recently. Blended learning has both advantages over traditional learning and possible risks, which include the lack of readiness of teachers to implement an innovative approach to teaching chemistry due to poor awareness of blended learning lesson models and methodological capabilities of electronic educational resources. Separate publications on conducting such chemistry lessons in the absence of generalized methodological recommendations do not allow the teacher to effectively master this technology. The purpose of the study is to develop guidelines that generalize and systematize the experience of organizing blended learning in chemistry lessons. The research methodology is determined: literary search on the problem of organizing blended learning; studying the readiness of chemistry teachers to organize blended learning; development of scripts for chemistry lessons in different blended learning models; preparation of recommendations for chemistry teachers. This article presents the results of a questionnaire survey of chemistry teachers, allowing to determine their readiness for the organization of blended learning. It was found that more than 70% of chemistry teachers know what blended learning is, but prefer to accompany traditional face-to-face learning with electronic resources or use the flipped classroom blended learning model as the most understandable and accessible. The authors confirmed the assumption of the need to develop a generalized model of blended learning lessons, criteria for choosing a model and electronic resources, taking into account the studied content. When choosing electronic resources, the main criterion should be the scientific nature of the studied content, and not the convenience of the user interface. An important criterion is the cross-platform nature of educational resources, as well as the availability of guidelines for the inclusion of the proposed electronic resources in the educational process.

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