Development of Teachers’ Professional Identity as a Second Career in the M.Teach Program as a Lever to Empower the Future Education System

The Dovrat Committee (2004) in Israel, pointed up the need for radical change in teacher training programs and recommended introducing school reform programs, such as the New Horizons and the Courage to Change reforms, implemented in the Israeli education system over recent years. The article reviews future teachers’ needs that necessitate changes in the education provided by teacher training colleges. It describes research examining teachers’ professional identity development and desirable characteristics for the future teacher. Participants were 23 student-teachers studying in an M.Teach degree course. The research investigated their attitudes and perceptions concerning the image of the future teacher.

Development of students’ professional readiness to provide emergency psychological assistance

В статье рассматриваются проблемы и опыт исследования профессиональной готовности студентов к оказанию экстренной психологической помощи. Анализ публикаций позволил авторам рассмотреть теоретические представления о готовности к профессиональной деятельности с позиций компетентностного подхода к подготовке в вузе психолого-педагогических кадров в контексте приобщения студентов к освоению особенностей оказания экстренной психологической помощи. Авторами приведены данные эмпирического исследования уровня профессиональной готовности студентов к оказанию экстренной психологической помощи и обоснована возможность его существенного совершенствования на основе специально разработанной модели. Доказано, что реализация модели позволяет встроить в образовательный процесс специально созданные модули, обеспечивающие освоение действий, необходимых в процессе оказания пострадавшим экстренной психологической помощи, которые способствуют развитию профессиональной готовности будущего педагога-психолога к его осуществлению. Представленные сведения подтверждают положительную динамику исходного уровня, исследуемого свойства студентов и значимости достигнутых изменений. The article discusses the problems and experience of studying professional readiness of students to provide emergency psychological assistance. The analysis of publications allowed the authors to consider theoretical ideas about readiness for professional activity from the standpoint of a competence-based approach to training of psycho-pedagogical personnel at the university in the context of introducing students to the development of the features of emergency psychological assistance. The authors present the data of an empirical study of the level of professional readiness of students to provide emergency psychological assistance and substantiate the possibility of its significant improvement on the basis of a specially developed model. It is proved that the implementation of the model makes it possible to integrate into the educational process specially created modules that ensure the development of actions necessary in the process of providing emergency psychological assistance to victims, which contribute to the development of professional readiness of the future teacher-psychologist for its implementation. The presented information confirms the positive dynamics of the initial level of the studied property of students and the significance of the achieved changes.

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY FOR HEALTH IN EDUCATION OF FUTURE TEACHER PERSONALITY IN THE HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL

The article reveals the activity for health in education of future teacher personality in the healthy environment of high school as a nature-appropriate motor activity of the future teacher; it provides development and improvement of health processes of vital activity, support and strengthening of physical, mental, social and spiritual health of the future specialist.The discipline «Sports and pedagogical improvement» is described, which provides students with a set of knowledge, skills and abilities for the development of activity for health and experience of educational and training work, which will allow to conduct classes at a high professional level in the chosen sport. Studying the discipline is a necessary component of future teacher training. To a large extent, the implementation of the proposed discipline is facilitated by practical classes, which aim to deepen the knowledge, skills and abilities of students in certain sports through the use of active methods of educational and training process. The specificity of the discipline is that the methods of the subject involve the use of classical methods, forms and means of higher school pedagogy; there is an accumulation of knowledge about the chosen sport, necessary for the development of physical qualities, increase activity, self-esteem and correction of student behavior.

MODERN EDUCATIONAL COMPONENTS OF INNOVATION TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN THE ESTABLISHMENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The article deals with the theoretical aspects of the problem of readiness for the innovative activity, its analyze the modern components of the professional competence and innovative activity. Professional development of future teacher of philological subjects – process is complicated and lengthy. Theoretical and practical study is necessary part during of future teacher’s master of system or research knowledge in the branch of philological subjects in conjunction with general professional training. The problem of using of interactive methods in the preparation of teacher-philologists of higher school is considered in the article.

Effective Educational Technologies for Professional and Personal Formation of the Future Teacher at the University

Professional mobility is largely based on the ability to varying professional correlation of university knowledge, skills and abilities with the requirements of the labor market and centuries-old established experience of the life of society. All this presupposes the objective necessity of introducing modern educational technologies into professional training carried out in universities. The question is to determine the most rational and effective educational technologies for the professional and personal formation of a future teacher at a university.

FORMATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS IN PREPARING A FUTURE TEACHER

The article emphasizes the features of the teacher's professional activity as one that is focused on the collectively achieved result. The requirements for professional relations in the teaching staff are clarified and the content, approaches, methods of preparation of the student - future teacher to establish relations of cooperation with colleagues in the institution of general secondary education are outlined. The authors substantiate the objective need to prepare future teachers for professional relations, which involves mastering the ethical principles of business relationships in the educational environment, understanding the essence of the requirements for the employee as a member of a team of like-minded people; ability to act in accordance with common goals, objectives, based on recognized in the educational environment moral and ethical principles; ability to analyze complex communicative situations, knowledge of ways to prevent and resolve conflicts between participants in professional interaction; awareness of the essence of anthropological competence of a modern teacher, its indicators, ways of formation and methods of implementation in professional communication, mastery of the basics of psycho-emotional self-regulation, to be motivated for constant personal and professional self-improvement. In freelance education, such training can have a universal meaning, but it is especially important for the teacher as a subject of continuous multilevel professional interaction.

Learning theory

The textbook is devoted to one of the sections of pedagogy - the theory of learning. The leading issues are the content of education; forms, methods, means of teaching; forms of organization of training. The main attention is paid to the educational system of Russia and modern trends in the development of education. The study of the theory of learning is important not only for the future teacher to master the system of knowledge, but also for the formation of students' didactic competencies. To do this, in addition to theoretical material, the textbook contains a significant amount of practical tasks, material for consolidating what has been studied, test questions and tasks. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For undergraduate students studying in psychological and pedagogical specialties, as well as for undergraduates of pedagogical specialties who do not have a basic pedagogical education.