A young teacher: consolidation in the profession
8-12 August the "Summer Education School" for undergraduate students of teachers training departments was held on the basis of students camp "Burevestnik”
The representatives of pedagogical (teachers training) universities and colleges of Russia, Chuvashia, Udmurtia and Belarus participated in the work of the School organized in the framework of the VII International Festival of schoolteachers: Vyatka State University Samara State Social and Pedagogical University, Teachers Training College of Naberezhnye Chelny, Kazan Pedagogical College, Bugulma Vocational Pedagogical College, Arsk Pedagogical College named after G.Tukay, Menzelinsk Pedagogical College named after Musa Jalil, Chuvash State Pedagogical University named after I.Y.Yakovlev, Udmurt State University, Institute of Mathematics, IT and physics of Belarus State Pedagogical University named after M. Tank.
Young specialists have got a unique opportunity to communicate with leading experts in the field of education. Specialists of home and foreign universities, teacher-practitioners who have significant achievements in their professional activities - moderators of the International Festival of schoolteachers took part in the work of the School. Within the five days of its work among those who presented their methodological findings and recommendations to the undergraduate students were Lydia Kozinets – candidate of ped. science, head of a branch of the Pedagogical Department of the Belarus State Pedagogical University named after M. Tank (Minsk, Belarus);
Eugeniya Geen - a senior fellow at the Laboratory of "Education for a New Era," an expert on TRIZ International Laboratory for Educational Technologies "Education for a New Era" (Moscow),;
Inessa Zubrilina, - Senior Lecturer of the Department of Post-diploma language education of Minsk State Linguistic University, the English teacher of highest qualification category of Minsk Gimnasium №24 (Minsk, Belarus);
Inna Golovanova – candidate of ped. sciences, assistant professor of Pedagogical Department of the Institute of Psychology and Education of KFU
Olga Shatunova - candidate of ped. sciences, Head of the Department of General Engineering Training of Elabuga Institute of KFU:
Nadezhda Savina.- candidate of ped. sciences, professor of the Pedagogical Department of Elabuga Institute of KFU
Master classes on various topics have been presented for the students : "Professional development of a teacher", "A teacher’s charisma", "Evaluation of the effectiveness of the educational process", "The young teacher’s authority", "What and how to teach today's children?", "Development of creative skills of children" "Innovative teaching experience as an object of scientific investigation", "Elaboration of a problem lesson" and others. As a practical result gained by the students of the School was to work out one’s own methodological project ready for usage.
From the participants’ point of view the work at the projects has mobilized them and given an opportunity to express themselves, to identify their professional potential.
Paulina Tihanskaya, Belaru State Pedagogical University:
- Knowledge gained at the master classes will be very useful for us in the future. For example, a master class on a teacher’s charisma everyone has found to his/her liking, I believe. We’ve learned a lot about ourselves and learned what a pedagogical charisma is:and got the motivation to develop certain traits of personality.
Gauliullina Regina, a student of Kazan Federal University:
- We thank the organizers, Elabuga Institute of KFU for the opening of this School. All necessary conditions have been created for us. Each master class, each lessoin conducted for us has given a lot of useful information that can be used at school.
It should be noted that the issue of the School 'Young Teacher: consolidation in the profession ", is of key importance for the Kazan Federal University in the framework of RAE" Teacher of the 21st century" project: young specalists have become participants of several applied researches relating to professional competences of a modern teacher, to the problem of overcoming communication barriers which is of great importance for the profession of a teacher, to the self-assessment of existing skills and competences, and others.
In addition, the results of these studies will be used by Elabuga Institute in the work on the package of measures aimed at implementing the project of the Ministry of Education and Science of RF in the framework of the Federal target program on education development of 2016-2020. associated with the implementation of a new competence-based approach in the preparation of future teachers.
Specialists of the Elabuga Institute expect that the analysis of the results gained in the Summer Education School will allow them to work out some practical recommendations that will form the basis of changes in the system of teacher education, exactly in Elabuga Institute, and influence the recommendations for the development of teacher education in the country as well.
