Democratization of society is directly related to building the rule of law. Factors contributing to emerging social risk undermine democratic principles. Professional training in a higher educational institution is focused on activity under certain politico-social conditions. Teaching in higher institutions should become a transformational stage for professional activity under conditions of social risk. Training to professional activity under conditions of social risk should be carried out through studying risk factors, integration of risk-oriented training in the course of teaching process, search for and implementation of effective form of teaching, issues of legal and noxological culture of teachers and students. Formation of noxological culture in the process of professional training in higher institution becomes a condition of social risk minimization. Designing and realization of noxologically oriented teachers' training is a necessity imposed by society development. Higher education institutions' graduates' competitiveness should be mainly provided by its focus on conservation of their pupils' life and health, i.e. future generation of the country. Given this, the teacher using innovations will develop learners' innovation thinking, fulfilling of their abilities. The methodological framework of the research consists of conception of educating life safety (Antyukhin E., Sulla M.); education methodology (Gmurman V.E., Danilov M.A., Schedrovitsky G.P., etc.); formation of base personal culture in the integral pedagogical process (Gazman O.S., Ledned V.S., etc.). The objective is to theoretically study the possibility of designing noxologically oriented teachers' training – the necessity imposed by relevant social problems and its need in development. DOI:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s3p175
The reform of structure and content of education in Lithuania is being carried out. One of its components is quality improvement of secondary schools in pursuit of transforming best secondary schools into gymnasiums where common subjects will be taught at higher level. The article analyses the experience of secondary schools in Lithuania in the period of transition into the gymnasium status. ; Lietuvos švietimo ir mokslo ministerija 1995 metais patvirtino gimnazijos koncepciją, kurioje svarbiausias vaidmuo skiriamas pedagogams: jų kvalifikacijai, kompetencijai, nuostatoms. Dokumentuose buvo paskelbta, kad gimnazijos turi įgyvendinti humanistinę demokratinę ugdymo filosofiją ir vertybių sistemą, o pedagogai turi gebėti parengti individualias mokomųjų dalykų programas ir dirbi pagal jas, sukurti lankstų ugdymo procesą, pagal moksleivių poreikius modeliuoti profilius ir jų pakraipas, garantuoti aukštą profilinio mokymo lygį, vykdyti tarptautinius projektus ar juose dalyvauti, dirbti kompiuteriu, naudotis kompiuterinėmis programomis, telekomunikacijos priemonėmis, nuolat tobulintis, siekti metodininko ar net eksperto vardo. Šiame darbelyje bandyta paanalizuoti įvairių mokslininkų darbus ar juose keliamas mintis ir idėjas, susijusias su pedagogais, jų vertybėmis, nuostatomis, taip pat, naudojantis adaptuota, suderinta su autore prof. habil. dr. D. Beresnevičienės anketa, pateikta monografijoje "Nuolatinis mokymasis Lietuvoje (psichologiniai pagrindai"), buvo atliktas nedidelis tyrimas ir paanalizuoti keturių didesnių bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų pedagogai: dviejų gimnazijų ir dviejų vidurinių mokyklų.
The issue of designing the learning environment, which opens the access to modern educational resources and contributes to developing a new level of interaction between teachers and students, is extremely relevant for national system of higher education. The development of digital technologies makes it possible to design qualitative, hi-tech learning environment for training specialists of different professions. The signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and EU accelerates the process of digitalizing national education that is proved by a number of legislative initiatives and strategic documents, Digital Agenda of Ukraine – 2020 (2016), Law of Ukraine On Education (2017), Concept "New Ukrainian School", Regulation on Electronic Textbooks, and Regulation on National Educational Electronic Platform are among them.The purpose of the article is to analyse and generalize national and foreign experience about designing open electronic learning environment that gives an opportunity to model digital learning environment for training primary school teachers, as well as to describe the structure and content of this pedagogical phenomenon. The principles of open education and regulations of competence-based approach constitute the theoretical justification of research. The author analyse the national experience of designing innovative e-environment: the model of electronic educational platform – Universal educational environment – ACCENT (http://ac-cent.com/) and electronic platform mobiSchool which are designed by Ukrainian scientists and implemented into the practice as web-tools of electronic learning in secondary schools. It is noted that foreign countries have more experience of creating electronic learning resources, including open digital learning tools, courses, and textbooks. Among widespread information and communication environments there are Open Educational Resources (OER, https://www.oercommons.org/), Coursera (http://www.coursera.org), Academic Earth (http://academicearth.org), and online platforms of repositories of educational resources of Harvard and Preston Universities, Massachusetts Technological Institution and others.It is set out that in foreign pedagogy studies more modern generation of learning resources, Next Generation of Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE). NGDLE is designed as a universal digital learning platform for school teachers and students, university teachers and students, locating and providing software, learning services and tools for learning management. The authors describe the project of digital learning environment for training primary school teachers, designed by the teachers of SHEI "Donbas State Pedagogical University". The educational resource corresponds to the principles of open education and contains the following subsections: digital learning resources, web-conferences, webinars, scientific and methodological repository, methodological portal, distance courses for matriculants, forum and news. ; The issue of designing the learning environment, which opens the access to modern educational resources and contributes to developing a new level of interaction between teachers and students, is extremely relevant for national system of higher education. The development of digital technologies makes it possible to design qualitative, hi-tech learning environment for training specialists of different professions. The signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and EU accelerates the process of digitalizing national education that is proved by a number of legislative initiatives and strategic documents, Digital Agenda of Ukraine – 2020 (2016), Law of Ukraine On Education (2017), Concept "New Ukrainian School", Regulation on Electronic Textbooks, and Regulation on National Educational Electronic Platform are among them.The purpose of the article is to analyse and generalize national and foreign experience about designing open electronic learning environment that gives an opportunity to model digital learning environment for training primary school teachers, as well as to describe the structure and content of this pedagogical phenomenon. The principles of open education and regulations of competence-based approach constitute the theoretical justification of research. The author analyse the national experience of designing innovative e-environment: the model of electronic educational platform – Universal educational environment – ACCENT (http://ac-cent.com/) and electronic platform mobiSchool which are designed by Ukrainian scientists and implemented into the practice as web-tools of electronic learning in secondary schools. It is noted that foreign countries have more experience of creating electronic learning resources, including open digital learning tools, courses, and textbooks. Among widespread information and communication environments there are Open Educational Resources (OER, https://www.oercommons.org/), Coursera (http://www.coursera.org), Academic Earth (http://academicearth.org), and online platforms of repositories of educational resources of Harvard and Preston Universities, Massachusetts Technological Institution and others.It is set out that in foreign pedagogy studies more modern generation of learning resources, Next Generation of Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE). NGDLE is designed as a universal digital learning platform for school teachers and students, university teachers and students, locating and providing software, learning services and tools for learning management. The authors describe the project of digital learning environment for training primary school teachers, designed by the teachers of SHEI "Donbas State Pedagogical University". The educational resource corresponds to the principles of open education and contains the following subsections: digital learning resources, web-conferences, webinars, scientific and methodological repository, methodological portal, distance courses for matriculants, forum and news.
The issue of designing the learning environment, which opens the access to modern educational resources and contributes to developing a new level of interaction between teachers and students, is extremely relevant for national system of higher education. The development of digital technologies makes it possible to design qualitative, hi-tech learning environment for training specialists of different professions. The signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and EU accelerates the process of digitalizing national education that is proved by a number of legislative initiatives and strategic documents, Digital Agenda of Ukraine – 2020 (2016), Law of Ukraine On Education (2017), Concept "New Ukrainian School", Regulation on Electronic Textbooks, and Regulation on National Educational Electronic Platform are among them.The purpose of the article is to analyse and generalize national and foreign experience about designing open electronic learning environment that gives an opportunity to model digital learning environment for training primary school teachers, as well as to describe the structure and content of this pedagogical phenomenon. The principles of open education and regulations of competence-based approach constitute the theoretical justification of research. The author analyse the national experience of designing innovative e-environment: the model of electronic educational platform – Universal educational environment – ACCENT (http://ac-cent.com/) and electronic platform mobiSchool which are designed by Ukrainian scientists and implemented into the practice as web-tools of electronic learning in secondary schools. It is noted that foreign countries have more experience of creating electronic learning resources, including open digital learning tools, courses, and textbooks. Among widespread information and communication environments there are Open Educational Resources (OER, https://www.oercommons.org/), Coursera (http://www.coursera.org), Academic Earth (http://academicearth.org), and online platforms of repositories of educational resources of Harvard and Preston Universities, Massachusetts Technological Institution and others.It is set out that in foreign pedagogy studies more modern generation of learning resources, Next Generation of Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE). NGDLE is designed as a universal digital learning platform for school teachers and students, university teachers and students, locating and providing software, learning services and tools for learning management. The authors describe the project of digital learning environment for training primary school teachers, designed by the teachers of SHEI "Donbas State Pedagogical University". The educational resource corresponds to the principles of open education and contains the following subsections: digital learning resources, web-conferences, webinars, scientific and methodological repository, methodological portal, distance courses for matriculants, forum and news. ; The issue of designing the learning environment, which opens the access to modern educational resources and contributes to developing a new level of interaction between teachers and students, is extremely relevant for national system of higher education. The development of digital technologies makes it possible to design qualitative, hi-tech learning environment for training specialists of different professions. The signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and EU accelerates the process of digitalizing national education that is proved by a number of legislative initiatives and strategic documents, Digital Agenda of Ukraine – 2020 (2016), Law of Ukraine On Education (2017), Concept "New Ukrainian School", Regulation on Electronic Textbooks, and Regulation on National Educational Electronic Platform are among them.The purpose of the article is to analyse and generalize national and foreign experience about designing open electronic learning environment that gives an opportunity to model digital learning environment for training primary school teachers, as well as to describe the structure and content of this pedagogical phenomenon. The principles of open education and regulations of competence-based approach constitute the theoretical justification of research. The author analyse the national experience of designing innovative e-environment: the model of electronic educational platform – Universal educational environment – ACCENT (http://ac-cent.com/) and electronic platform mobiSchool which are designed by Ukrainian scientists and implemented into the practice as web-tools of electronic learning in secondary schools. It is noted that foreign countries have more experience of creating electronic learning resources, including open digital learning tools, courses, and textbooks. Among widespread information and communication environments there are Open Educational Resources (OER, https://www.oercommons.org/), Coursera (http://www.coursera.org), Academic Earth (http://academicearth.org), and online platforms of repositories of educational resources of Harvard and Preston Universities, Massachusetts Technological Institution and others.It is set out that in foreign pedagogy studies more modern generation of learning resources, Next Generation of Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE). NGDLE is designed as a universal digital learning platform for school teachers and students, university teachers and students, locating and providing software, learning services and tools for learning management. The authors describe the project of digital learning environment for training primary school teachers, designed by the teachers of SHEI "Donbas State Pedagogical University". The educational resource corresponds to the principles of open education and contains the following subsections: digital learning resources, web-conferences, webinars, scientific and methodological repository, methodological portal, distance courses for matriculants, forum and news.
Researchers investigated how primary school teachers benefited from their training. A total of 150 public school teachers in primary schools (75 men, 75 women) participated in the study. Using the survey method, the researcher adopted a simple random sampling technique. The researche employed a self-developed questionnaire with a five-point scale to compile the results. The questionnaire consisted of six main aspects. The validity of the research instrument was ensured in light of experts' opinions and pilot testing. The reliability was also ensured properly by applying Cronbach Alpha and its value was found .83. The data collected from respondents was organized properly. The data was analyzed through inferential statistics, and an independent-sample t-test was applied. The data was tabulated, presented and interpreted in a mean score, standard deviation and in the form of t- value to see the significant difference in mean score. It was concluded that teachers' training enhanced theteachers' professional competencies and recommended that teachers' professional training may be conducted continuously.
Government of Thailand recognizes the need of Human Resources Development of teaching professionals as a key to maintain standards of education at an internationally competitive level. Considering the large number of teachers currently in service whose expertise in new teaching and learning approaches will be critical in implementing the educational reform, it is surprising that very little work has been done in planning, developing and delivering training in new teaching and learning methods. The biggest impact of the teaching and learning reform rests with the teachers currently in the classrooms and yet little attention has been given to (a) developing an in service training programme to help these teachers to adopt student centered learning and other new practices, and (b) considering innovative approaches to delivering. This is matter of serious concern as many of teachers have not had any training since they graduated some twenty or more years. ago and certainly no training in new teaching or learning methods. Since in-service training can't be taken away from classes, there is urgent need to direct resources to planning, developing and delivering of in-service training. (National Institute for Development of Teachers, Faculty Staffs and Educational Personnel, Ministry of Education, Annual report 2007) .
Government of Thailand recognizes the need of Human Resources Development of teachingprofessionals as a key to maintain standards of education at an internationally competitive level.Considering the large number of teachers currently in service whose expertise in new teaching andlearning approaches will be critical in implementing the educational reform, it is surprising that very littlework has been done in planning, developing and delivering training in new teaching and learningmethods. The biggest impact of the teaching and learning reform rests with the teachers currently in theclassrooms and yet little attention has been given to (a) developing an in service training programme tohelp these teachers to adopt student centered learning and other new practices, and (b) consideringinnovative approaches to delivering. This is matter of serious concern as many of teachers have nothad any training since they graduated some twenty or more years. ago and certainly no training in newteaching or learning methods. Since in-service training can't be taken away from classes, there isurgent need to direct resources to planning, developing and delivering of in-service training. (NationalInstitute for Development of Teachers, Faculty Staffs and Educational Personnel, Ministry of Education,Annual report 2007) .
The Government of Pakistan has launched the reforms to address the quality of teacher education in view of National Educational Policy (2009) and developed ten professional standards (NPSTP 2009) for initial preparation of teachers, this quantitative descriptive study was an attempt to investigate public teachers training colleges of Karachi, faculty proficiency in the pedagogical use of ICTs in context of "NPSTP Standard # 7" and to identify constraints which they face in this context. A representative sample of 68 teacher educators from ten public sector teachers training colleges were selected conveniently to participate in this study. A tailor-made, self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. The quantitative data was analysed employing the descriptive statistical technique. The study found low proficiency in the pedagogical use of ICTs among faculty members. Moreover, in-sufficient training, restricted access to ICTs, lack of collegial learning and less motivation among faculty were identified as main constrains which the faculty faced in the usage of ICT. Subsequent to finding, feasible recommendations were suggested for the effective and efficient use of ICTs as an instruction tool.
SUMMARY: In issue 5(2), Robert Webster outlined the issues in school‐based child sexual abuse prevention. He argued that teachers were not being given the training they needed and wanted. This paper reports on a survey in one county of England, and shows the lack of training in child sexual abuse matters to be consistent with Robert Webster's experience. The authors go on to outline the types of training demanded by the vast majority of teachers.
The article examines the history of the emergence of special education teacher in the United States as a profession through the lens of the attitude of the US society towards the need for general and then special education. The society's attitudes toward education in the United States have undergone dramatic changes over time: from rejecting the need for education for children to creating an extensive network of special and general education institutions that provide the conditions for the education and treatment for children with disabilities. Accordingly, the attitude towards the special education teachers' training has changed: from the negation of the need to train teachers to heated debate on specializations and methods of effective teacher training, in particular special education teachers. The study of the impact of social initiatives on the development of US special education and teacher training is conducted to identify trends in the domestic special education industry. The importance of legislative endorsement of social initiatives is emphasized in the article, since only due to the adoption of «The Education for All Handicapped Children Act» (now known as «The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act») a mandatory legislative obligation to provide free, appropriate public education in the least restricted environment for all children with disabilities ages 3-21 was introduced and funded. It is emphasized that nowadays in the USA special education teachers' preparation takes place in accordance with certain specializations introduced in the taxonomic scheme «Classification of Instructional Programs». The US statistics for special education teachers' training in the 2018/2019 school year are presented. Scientific novelty is in addressing to the problem of US special education teachers' training on the basis of the author's analysis of legislative, theoretical and statistical materials. Conclusions. Based on the analysis, some tendencies on special education teachers' preparation in the USA were ...
One of the weaknesses of secondary science teachers today is the lack of ability to develop integrated science learning. Descriptive study, followed by developmental research has been done to determine the factors that caused the weakness, to find the right solution. In addition, the research that involving 25 teachers as subject, has also examined how far the treatment can be able to overcome the problems. The descriptive research shows that almost all of teachers did not have skillful on how to teach science in integrated way. This is because all of teacher's background is not from fully integrated science education. Most of them came from biology, physics and chemistry education. They have actually attended the training (arranged by government) on integrated science teaching, but it apparently have not succeeded. The eight steps of learning approach has been developed and implemented along the training: (1) Building common perception on science literacy, (2) integrated science analysis based on current curriculum and lesson analysis, (3) presentation, (4) designing lesson plan in groups, (5) simulation, (6) designing lesson plan individually, (7) evaluation-reflection, and (8) rewards. After the treatment, the teacher's ability to develop the lesson plans eventually improves much better as well as the understanding on integrated science concepts. Only three teachers have to follow remediation in making lesson plan because they still not fulfill requirement of graduation (minimum 80% achievement of conceptual understand, performance, and lesson plan product).
