Suchergebnisse

In the globalization process, integration of Lithuanian educational system into the European Union educational space enhances many requirements for schools leaders and teachers. Today's school is in need of high competence teachers and tutors. They not only have to be competent, to have deep professional knowledge and skills, but also keep improving their own professional qualification. Teachers have to be able to influence changes to existing processes of schools operations. Taking in consideration these facts, the problem of this research arises – the traditional role of a teacher is no longer suitable for multifunctional education of nowadays society. The object of the research – ever-changing roles of the teacher in nowadays society. The aim of the research – to analyze the new roles of the teacher and their fluctuation of peculiarities. The targets for the research: 1. To analyze the historical evolution of teachers role. 2. To specify the influence of teachers role in the fluctuation of educational processes. 3. To find out the point of views of teachers on their own most important roles in nowadays society. Focus of the research: 150 teachers from the four school of basic education located in capital of Lithuania. The methods of research: theoretical analysis of historical documents and publications, the anonymous questionnaire, the statistic analysis of the data based on SPSS13. After the completion of the empiric research, the original hypothesis that teachers are accepting all roles from the theoretical approach was proven to be correct. The negative factors off teacher roles among the examinees were listed the following: the teacher working with the group of pupils regardless the individual needs, the inability to constructively solve the problems and while solving problems not taking into consideration parental opinion. The traditional roles of teacher as subject tutor and class educator gained new activity prospective. The most emphasized roles are: an innovator, a consultant, a motivator, an explorer, a stimulator and witness of change, a social worker and a collaborating colleague. Most recent roles of teacher are manager of the educational process and the creator of alternatives.

In the globalization process, integration of Lithuanian educational system into the European Union educational space enhances many requirements for schools leaders and teachers. Today's school is in need of high competence teachers and tutors. They not only have to be competent, to have deep professional knowledge and skills, but also keep improving their own professional qualification. Teachers have to be able to influence changes to existing processes of schools operations. Taking in consideration these facts, the problem of this research arises – the traditional role of a teacher is no longer suitable for multifunctional education of nowadays society. The object of the research – ever-changing roles of the teacher in nowadays society. The aim of the research – to analyze the new roles of the teacher and their fluctuation of peculiarities. The targets for the research: 1. To analyze the historical evolution of teachers role. 2. To specify the influence of teachers role in the fluctuation of educational processes. 3. To find out the point of views of teachers on their own most important roles in nowadays society. Focus of the research: 150 teachers from the four school of basic education located in capital of Lithuania. The methods of research: theoretical analysis of historical documents and publications, the anonymous questionnaire, the statistic analysis of the data based on SPSS13. After the completion of the empiric research, the original hypothesis that teachers are accepting all roles from the theoretical approach was proven to be correct. The negative factors off teacher roles among the examinees were listed the following: the teacher working with the group of pupils regardless the individual needs, the inability to constructively solve the problems and while solving problems not taking into consideration parental opinion. The traditional roles of teacher as subject tutor and class educator gained new activity prospective. The most emphasized roles are: an innovator, a consultant, a motivator, an explorer, a stimulator and witness of change, a social worker and a collaborating colleague. Most recent roles of teacher are manager of the educational process and the creator of alternatives.