REQUIREMENTS TO FORMULATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING OF EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PROBLEMS AIMED AT TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE STUDENTS DURING BLENDED LEARNING IN MATHEMATICS

Statement of the problem. A fairly large number of requirements are presented to a graduate of a teacher training college. One of them is competence in information technology (hereinafter IT). This should be taught to students not only during computer science lessons, but also in the disciplines of the general education cycle, such as mathematics. Insufficient development of the methodology for using IT in mathematics lessons, some shortcomings in the use of digital technologies complicate the implementation of IT in the educational process. This article considers the role of IT in solving educational and research problems in mathematics; reveals the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning; the ways of eliminating these shortcomings with the help of the methodology for solving educational and research problems are outlined; the requirements to the formulation of educational and research tasks, which would contribute to the formation of skills in the use of IT, have been determined. The purpose of the article is to formulate the requirements to the formulation of an educational and research problem during blended learning in Mathematics among students of teacher training colleges. The research methodology consists of the analysis and systematization of documents in the field of secondary vocational education, research works on this topic, and the author’s own experience in teaching mathematics to students of a teacher training college. Research results. In the course of the analysis, the following results are presented: – the role of IT in solving educational and research problems in mathematics is determined; – the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning are revealed; – ways to eliminate the shortcomings of blended learning using the methodology for solving educational and research problems are outlined; – the requirements for the formulation of educational and research tasks, which would contribute to the formation of skills in the use of IT, are determined. Conclusion. The analysis carried out in the course of the study made it possible to formulate the requirements to the formulation of educational and research problems during blended learning in Mathematics among students of teacher training colleges.

Teacher Training College of the Jagiellonian University as an Example of Special-Purpose Training Institution within the Tertiary Education System of the Second Republic of Poland

<p>The article aims to define the position of specialised training in the system of tertiary education. The study looks into the basic legal acts of the Second Republic of Poland governing higher educational establishments in terms of the position awarded to such establishments as special-purpose colleges. The problem was discussed using the example of the Teacher Training College of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków inaugurated in 1921. Information sourced from the archives of the Jagiellonian University reveals how important a social role that institution played in pre-war Poland. It was a major training centre for secondary school teachers in the recovered general educational system. While remaining part of the university and denied academic status, the college was not an ordinary teacher training facility. Its significant position is confirmed by its operation within the framework of the Jagiellonian University, the use of university staff as lecturers, the practical and scientific nature of the curriculum, and students access to internships abroad. All things considered, the Teacher Training College of the Jagiellonian University operating in newly reborn Poland earned the status of a pioneer of specialist education and set the trend for other special forms of training. The novelty of the research carried out and the results obtained arise from the fact that this subject has not yet been analyzed by legal historians. Also for this reason, it should be recognized that the presented issue has a cognitive value for science.</p>

How to Become an Author: The Poet Isa Asp and Her Childhood Fascination with Writing for Magazines

In this article the author explores the early development of the identity as a writer of a Finnish-speaking poet Lovisa (or Isa) Asp (1853–1872). She wrote her lyrics in the Finnish language in the 1870s, and she is regarded as the first 19th-century female Finnish poet (whose works were published in Finnish). She began writing poetry (initially in Swedish) as a teenager and started her literary career as a contributor to children’s magazines. Asp began her studies at the Teacher Training College in Jyväskylä in autumn 1871 with the aim of working as an elementary school teacher, but she also dreamt of becoming an established writer someday. Unfortunately, her early death meant that most of her poetry remained unpublished until the 21st century. The author investigates what kind of literature Asp read and why she was able to read extensively as a child in the remote Finnish-speaking countryside at a time when Finnish-language literature for children was scarce and still only nascent and being developed for nationalistic reasons; in those decades, most of the books and publications were still written in Swedish. The author analyses in particular the gendered experiences of reading (and writing) in the life of a young girl and woman from the countryside, because in those days most of the authors were men living in towns. A special focus of the article is on the texts that she wrote and edited for children’s magazines. The author studies her autobiographical sources using a biographical method and considers what kind of literature and libraries inspired her career as an early female poet. National poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg and poet and historian Zacharias Topelius, the major Fennoman authors, were the literary models for the young Isa Asp. Their works inspired her to write and to aspire for a career as a poet and author, an occupation that was then still rare for a woman. Writing for children’s magazines was a crucial stage in her career, and her identity as a writer was strengthened by the opportunity to have her poems and short tales published. Also, writing for these handwritten as well as published magazines made her dreams visible and encouraged her to pursue them with effort. All this shows that her development as a writer was a deliberate, goal-oriented process. The publication of her poems and obtaining the community’s approval of them were important for the young poet. The encouragement to pursue a career in writing that Isa with her literary gifts received as a child from her immediate surroundings helped her to achieve her dreams, which in the end turned out not to be impossible to realise.

Flattening the Hierarchy Curve: Adaptive Leadership during the Covid-19 Pandemic – A Case Study in an Academic Teacher Training College

The Covid-19 pandemic forced institutions of higher education to adopt agile leadership behaviors. The current research aims to examine how the leadership at the Ohalo teacher training college in Israel dealt with the crisis caused by the pandemic. The research hypothesis, predicting a positive relationship between the college leadership&rsquo;s decisions and lecturers&rsquo; positive evaluations regarding these decisions, was confirmed. Previous research has given scant attention to the relationship between running an academic institution and applying principles of adaptive leadership during a crisis. This article presents a case study of adaptive leadership at an academic institution during the Covid-19 pandemic. The conclusions suggest that ensuring the continued functioning of an organization during a crisis requires skills and competencies reflecting multifaceted and adaptive leadership, agility, and direct channels of reciprocal, cooperative communication. Opportunities for initiative taking should be provided, and a consistent policy must be maintained that aims to &ldquo;flatten the hierarchy curve.&rdquo;

Učenje engleskog jezika iz perspektive studenata - budućih vaspitača

Starting from the hypothesis that an identification and a more detailed study of students' conceptual sphere regarding learning English language will result in mapping the fields in the tertiary-level teaching of English as a foreign language that need improvement, in the academic year 2018/19 we conducted a survey among all undergraduate students at the Preschool Teacher Training College "Mihajlo Palov" in Vršac. A total of 125 respondents filled out an anonymous questionnaire designed to reveal the source domains through which pre-service preschool teachers perceive learning English as a foreign language. A qualitative analysis of the researched corpus made it possible to single out five dominant conceptual metaphors of different source domains for the concept of English language learning. Among the obtained metaphors, special attention was given to selecting the metaphors with a methodological potential for implementation in teaching, as well as to the suggestions for modelling the so-called disruptive metaphors that have a negative effect on the English language acquisition.

Potentials and limitations of individualisation of specialist training in a teacher training college

The purpose of the article is to present a number of research results on identifying and evaluating the potentials and limitations of individualisation of training of specialists in the field of "Preschool education" in the pedagogic college. The importance of the identified environmental potentials of individualisation of training of specialists at the levels of saturation of the medium events; the ability to ensure compliance with the pedagogic support of students’ interests in learning activities, pedagogic practices, subject activity, communication, self-knowledge; the system of organising longitudinal practice on the basis of pre-school educational organisations; the presence of a structural division of additional education in the college; the possibility of tutor support; the priority of pedagogic means for developing the student's personality. The author analyses individual projects, educational research, methods of reflexive analysis, and individual preparation of students for participation in Worldskills Russia Championships as the potential for individualisation of future specialist training. The collective self-assessment of the conducted innovative activity actualised the stable motivation of students and the interest of pedagogues in experimental activities as additional opportunities for individualisation of specialist training.

Early Attempts at Revival in Massachusetts

This chapter focuses on schooling in Massachusetts between the Revolution and the reforms commonly associated with Horace Mann and the Common School Awakening. After surveying the legislative history, especially focusing on laws passed in 1789 and 1827, it looks at two specific efforts to reform education in the 1820s. The first involved Lancasterian schools. After William Bentley Fowle’s success in launching a monitorial school in Boston, Josiah Quincy, the city’s mayor, attempted to implement this method on a broader scale. The second reform examined is James Carter’s campaign to found a state-sponsored teacher training college. Both of these efforts at reform failed. Notably, these campaigns lacked strong religious components. This chapter thus serves as a negative example, a foil that throws into relief the religious appeals treated in other chapters.