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