Teaching Experiment and Foundations of its Organization

44.04.01 TEACHER’S TRAINING

Major – ADULT EDUCATION

Qualification (degree) – Master

Training programme – ACADEMIC MASTER’S PROGRAMME

Course modules (units, topics):

Course contents:

1. Teaching experiment, its subject-matter, and category framework. Types of teaching experimentation.
2. Criteria of scientific character of teaching research and requirements to teaching experiment.
3. Contents and scale of experiment. Nature of the research object analysis.
4. Stages of teaching experiment (diagnostic, predictive, organization-preparatory, practical, and roundup)

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Tutorials.

Total – 108

Total credit points – 3

Practicals – 28

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Teacher’s Skills

44.04.01 TEACHER’S TRAINING

Major – ADULT EDUCATION

Qualification (degree) – Master

Training programme – ACADEMIC MASTER’S PROGRAMME

Course modules (units, topics):

Course contents:

1. Backbone of teacher’s skills in a historical context and under conditions of modernization of the modern Russian school 

1.1. Teacher’s skills under conditions of modernization of the modern Russian school

1.2. Main approaches (Russian and foreign) to understanding the essence of teacher’s skills

2. Pedagogical communication and its functions

2.1. Pedagogical communication, its functions, and optimization techniques

2.2. Teaching tact and teaching expertise. Teaching expertise as a complex of teacher’s qualities

3.1. Pedagogical analysis of a learning session as a way to improve teaching expertise

3.2. Technology to create a situation of success in pedagogical process

4. Teacher’s expertise in the organization of informative linguistic and demonstration manipulation 

4.1. Teacher’s self-control expertise. Basics of a self-direction technique

4.2 Teacher’s expertise in the organization of informative linguistic and demonstration manipulation 

4.3 Conflict as psychological teaching problem. Teaching conflict management

4.4. Teaching evaluation technology

4.5 Teaching demand technology

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Tutorials.

Total – 144

Total credit points – 4

Practicals – 42

Midterm assessment – examination

Teachers' Skills and Abilities and Ways of their Development in Professional Activities

44.04.01 TEACHER’S TRAINING

Major – ADULT EDUCATION

Qualification (degree) – Master

Training programme – ACADEMIC MASTER’S PROGRAMME

Course modules (units, topics):

Course contents:

1. Teacher’s abilities and personality traits in the structure of a teaching activity subject  

1.1. Teacher as a subject of teaching activity. Definition of teaching potentials

1.2. Possibility to develop teaching potentials in professional activity

2. Classification of teaching potentials.

2.1 Communication, organizational, perceptional, creative abilities and their peculiarities

2.2. Suggestive, gnostical, academic, didactic, design constructive abilities and their peculiarities

3. Problem of formation of professional teaching abilities

3.1. Structure of teaching potentials

3.2. Interconnection of teaching activity, teaching communication and teacher’s personality

4. Influence of an innovative teaching activity on the development of teacher’s professional abilities

4.1. Influence of an innovative teaching activity on the development of teacher’s professional abilities

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Tutorials.

Total – 144

Total credit points – 4

Practicals – 30

Midterm assessment – examination

Psychological Teaching Diagnostics in Education

44.04.01 TEACHER’S TRAINING

Major – ADULT EDUCATION

Qualification (degree) – Master

Training programme – ACADEMIC MASTER’S PROGRAMME

Course modules (units, topics):

Course contents:

1. Unit “Psychological teaching diagnostics in the system of education and its specifics”

1.1. Topic “Main definitions of principles and applications of psychological teaching diagnostics in the system of education”

1.2. Topic “Psychological teaching diagnostics in the system of education: historical overview”

2. Unit “Logic and structure of a teacher’s diagnostic activity”

2.1. Topic “Teacher’s diagnostic activity, its objectives and aims”

2.2. Topic “Structure of a teacher’s diagnostic activity”

3. Unit “Modeling of a teacher’s diagnostic activity”

3.1. Topic “Types of a teacher’s diagnostic activity”

3.2. Topic “Models of a teacher’s diagnostic activity and their characteristics”

4. Unit “Professional ethics in a teacher’s diagnostic activity”

4.1. Topic “Professional ethics in a teacher’s diagnostic activity”

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom.
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory).
3. Tutorials.

Total – 144

Total credit points – 4

Practicals – 14

Midterm assessment – examination