The rapid development of informational and communicational technologies (ICT) presents many
challenges and problems for education. It is necessary to adapt existing training models for use with
different technologies. It also creates the need for an adequate qualification of teachers for their effective
application.
The purpose of this inquiry is to present a comprehensive Didactic Model for classroom management
through the application of specialized software Mythware. The article summarizes the
outcomes from the application of this software for teacher training and qualification. The model
supports in-service teacher training and enables more effective work on the implementation of information
and communication technologies in the training process.
Keyword(s) : model
Learning after a model: the position of a teacher in practice
After the influence of the parents in the earliest period of childhood development, the social role
of teachers is crucial when it comes to the growth of each of the students individually and when it
comes to the development of the society as a whole. The lifetime learning and competent teacher is
the important figure in teaching process. Consequently, the role of teachers in the education system
is changing (according to the changes in lifestyle, technology and by other social changes), but it is
always an important factor in education and upbringing. The teacher remains a model – an example
for his/her students. That model is changing with the social context, and it is understandable that
there are many points of view in building up a teacher as a model: in theory, in imaginary of the students,
and in opinion of the teachers themselves. In the paper, we are going to consider all of them.
There are three forms of learning after a model: identification, imitation, and role learning. The
teacher is a model that carries a lot of importance to the formation of social identity and has a great
responsibility in developing the personality of the child.
In order to more effectively examine the role of teachers and emphasize the importance of the teachers’
model, we conducted a survey among elementary schools in Belgrade. In the survey participated
253 students (aged from 13 to 15) and 13 pedagogues, in order to encompass different viewing angles
to the position of teacher. We came to the conclusion that when students like a professor, they
learn their subject with more attention, so the most desirable virtues of the teacher are emphazed.
Also, we can see in the results that the personality of the teacher and his/hers personal skills and
competencies are very important for students and could be crucial in the quality of the teaching
process. Teacher is not only one sided subject who has obligation to transfer knowledge, he is also
important model of behaving and learning.
The model of a future teacher’s risk-recognizing competency formation in the process of preparation for innovative educational activities
The next generation of teachers will need to engage in innovative activities that carry risk! There is insufficient development of the theoretical, methodological and procedural aspects of secondary school teacher education, so that they are ready to innovate. The research reported here led to a model for developing the competence of student teachers to recognise risk when preparing for educational innovation. The model combines cognitive with practical activities, using interrelated targets, procedures and effective components. Simulation was used to help students to make and take responsibility for innovation. The article identifies the characteristics of the model and justifies the conceptual provisions. The aim is to improve the efficiency of processes for developing risk awareness in teacher education, and help them apply their knowledge, skills and experience to prevent and reduce risk in educational innovation.
The model of teacher education as a form of implementation of the strategic academic unit
A teacher education study was conducted in the framework of SAE (Strategic Academic Unit). The aim of the study was to develop a model for bachelors (future mathematicians, physicists, biologists, and others) undertaking concurrent vocational teaching training (a teacher of mathematics, physics or biology). To design an effective model of teacher education in the Federal University under conditions of socio-political, pedagogical and methodical for the training of teachers in different countries. The model of teacher education in Kazan Federal University includes several trajectories – distributed, variability, integrative, etc. The novelty of this model is determined by the processability of building the content of teacher education. The technology has an integrative, variability, modular, and task-oriented nature. The modular structure of the training process enables the pre-set training activities as holistic thematic sections or blocks, that is, restructuring of the organization (structure) of training. Focusing on problem-oriented technology (from communicative core and critical thinking to a modular, problem-based learning and expert seminars) allows implementing the content of disciplines in educational psychology, didactics, teaching methods and teaching practice as a practice-oriented system which also ensures the formation of professional pedagogical skills. The quality of training of future teachers is ensured by the fact that students are offered publicly available “library” with educational training modules, each of which: precisely formulates verifiable educational outcomes focused on teacher standards; describes the forms of organization of the educational process to ensure the achievement of these results; offers assessment tools for intermediate and final control of the level of achievement of the future teacher.
The University Center of Excellence
To design the effective model of the center of excellence we must take into account that the following play an important role for them: external sources (links to the competencies sources), interaction within the business unit, the effectiveness of the center’s activities (profitability and competitiveness, innovativeness, transfer of knowledge) and the investment of the parent company. The article proves that advancing education and training at a high level of difficulty (while creating psychological and pedagogical conditions of personal growth of students) enables school leavers to win national competitions, organized by the ranked universities and, accordingly, to enter those universities out of competition. Therefore, modern lyceums for gifted children may be not for really gifted, but for more or less cable pupils. And whether or not they become talented, depends on many factors, including reasons related to the preparation special teachers for them. Moreover, daily experience shows that often they become gifted not thanks to but in spite of the education, which is considered as profile or in-depth (for gifted only).
The creation of centers of excellence as innovative structures of university science and education should include: development and support of its own structure, and then search for and justification of the idea of innovation; the creation of innovations, ready for sale; the promotion of innovation in the economy and the market of educational services. Of particular importance in this case are the mechanisms and methods of reasoning the ideas, economic evaluation of innovations, market research, evaluation of innovative projects, creativity motivation and economic incentive to stimulate the personnel initiative, the target program management, promotion of innovations. For the senior staff of universities strategic task-oriented management should be of higher priority: management should be directed at identifying and ranking specific problems, determination of scale and direction of their impact, and the possible consequences and the strategy of behavior under standard conditions.
Of great importance is the creation of conditions for the transfer of knowledge. Properly constructed educational trajectory from pre-school to university is a prerequisite for a scientific breakthrough.