Additional education

The Department has developed the program of the additional education courses “Pedagogical Skills of Counselors”.

The aim is vocational training of counselors, development their creative, communicative and organizational skills and mastering the pedagogical technique of organizing children's leisure in camps.

The course combines lectures, practical classes and trainings on the main directions of educational work and methods of organizing leisure activities for children in the summer camp.

The novelty of the program is an integrated and practice-oriented approach in counselors training. The theoretical part is connected with the study of different methods of organization children’s leisure, feature of psychology of children and the structure of the children’s group. The practice classes direct to implement acquired knowledge in real-life situations and improve counselor’s professional skills.

Topics:

• organization of children’s leisure;
• normative and legal bases of the counselor's activity;
• psychological and pedagogical bases of the counselor’s activity;
• methodological basis of the counselor's work.

Principles and approaches of the program:

• the prevalence of practice-oriented forms and methods of instruction;
• the combination of individual and personal-oriented approaches to the process of professional training of counselors;
• the organization of educational process is based on creative approach;
• the principle of development and self-development unity during professional training;
• the principle of manufacturability, which assumes the mastering of specific algorithms of the counselor's activity;
• the principle of problem learning, implying training through  the creation of problematic situations that motivate students to independently search for  the most effective ways to solve them.

This educational program will be interesting for teachers, teachers of the University, students of the various area of training and for all, who wish to work with children.

Graduates of this program receive a KFU certificate that gives the right to work in the children’s camps.