Professional development of a teacher in modern conditions

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF A TEACHER

IN MODERN CONDITIONS

«He who understands the new, cherishing the old, can be a teacher»

Confucius

Introduction. Today, every educational institution strives to live and work in a new way. This is required by modern society, which needs highly educated, purposeful, erudite, competitive, spiritually and physically healthy individuals who are able to take a worthy place in society.

Improving the level of teaching at school is an urgent methodological problem that has worried and continues to worry leading foreign and domestic methodologists. It is especially acute at the present stage, when new pedagogical technologies and new technical capabilities have appeared.

Main part. The priority goal of modern education is not the reproductive transfer of knowledge, skills and abilities from the teacher, but the full-fledged formation of the student's abilities to independently outline the educational problem, form an algorithm for solving it, control the process and evaluate the result – to teach to learn. The educational system of the country faces a difficult task: the formation of mobile self-fulfilling personality, capable of learning throughout life. The leading slogan of the past years, «Education for Life», was replaced by the slogan «Education for Life». The main factors for building a personal development vector are the ability to navigate the sea of information and the ability to make the right decisions based on data from various sources.

It should be noted the most vulnerable side of the introduction of the Federal State Educational Standard in general education schools is the teacher's training, the formation of his philosophical and pedagogical position, methodological, didactic, communicative, methodological and other competencies.

Working according to the standards of the second generation, the teacher must make the transition from traditional technologies of developing, personality – oriented learning, use technologies of level differentiation, learning based on a competent approach, «learning situations», project and research activities, information and communication technologies, interactive methods and active forms of learning.

Thus, the changes taking place in the country, in society, the implementation of the priority national project «Education», imposes new requirements on the modern teacher.

What is he like, a modern teacher?

Perhaps it is difficult to answer this question unequivocally. In my opinion, this is a person who is able to create conditions for the development of creative abilities, to develop students' desire for creative perception of knowledge. To teach them to think independently, to formulate questions for themselves in the process of studying the material, to fully realize their needs, to increase their motivation to study subjects, to encourage their individual inclinations and talents. The modern teacher is in constant creative search, and also in search of the answer to the actual question «what to teach students? ». The modern teacher combines a love of work and students, knows how not only to teach students, but is also able to learn from his students. It should identify the best qualities inherent in the soul of every learner, encourage students to enjoy the acquired knowledge, so that after finishing school, they clearly understand their place in society and can work for its benefit, and are ready to participate in solving current and future problems of our society.

A modern teacher is a professional. The professionalism of a teacher is determined by his professional aptitude; professional self-determination; self-development, i.e. purposeful formation of those qualities that are necessary for the performance of professional activities. I believe that the distinctive features of a modern teacher are constant self-improvement, self-criticism, erudition and a high work culture. Professional growth of a teacher is impossible without self-educational needs. The statement of K.D. Ushinsky that the teacher lives as long as he learns, in modern conditions takes on special significance – life itself has put on the agenda the problem of continuous pedagogical education. A. Disterverg wrote, referring to the teacher: «He is only able to actually educate and educate, while he works on his own upbringing and education». The ability to «make oneself» in accordance with social and moral ideals, in which professional competence, the richness of spiritual life and responsibility would become the natural conditions of human life, is the most urgent need of the day.

Professional self-development, like other activities, is based on a rather complex set of motives and sources of activity. Usually, the driving force and source of self-education of the teacher is called the need to improve self-education.

Today, external and internal sources of self-development activity are differentiated. External sources (the requirements and expectations of society) are the main ones and determine the direction and depth of the necessary self-development. The teacher's need for self-education caused from outside is further fueled by a personal source of activity (beliefs, a sense of duty, responsibility, professional honor, healthy self-esteem, etc.)

- this need forms a system of actions for self-improvement, the nature of which is largely determined by the content of the professional ideal.

For the deployment of the processes of self-development and self-education, the level of self-esteem formation is of great importance. Psychologists note two methods of forming the correct self-esteem. The first is to correlate the level of your claims with the result achieved, and the second is to compare them with the opinions of others. That is why it is very important for every person who has chosen a teaching profession to form an ideal image of a teacher in their mind.

It is very important for a teacher to never stop at what has been achieved, but to go forward, because the work of a teacher is a great source for unlimited creativity. «Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves only to what they think can do. You can achieve so much more. You just have to believe in what you’re doing» (Mary Kay Ash). For a modern teacher, his profession is an opportunity for self-realization, a source of satisfaction and recognition. A modern teacher is a person who is able to smile and be interested in everything that surrounds him, because the school is alive as long as the teacher is interesting to the child.

In my opinion, an important part of professional self-development is the self-educational work of a teacher.

Mastering the skills of independent work begins with the establishment of a hygienic and pedagogically sound daily routine. It is necessary to plan your educational and extracurricular activities in such a way that there is time for self-educational work and for cultural recreation.

In the activity of a teacher who is characterized by culture of intellectual work, the following components are manifested:

• culture of thinking as asset of skills of analysis and synthesis, comparison and classification, abstraction and communication, «transfer» of the acquired knowledge and techniques of mental activity in new conditions.

• stable cognitive process, skills and abilities of creative solution of cognitive tasks, the ability to focus on the main, most important problems at the moment;

• rational techniques and methods of independent work on obtaining knowledge, perfect command of oral and written speech;

• hygiene of mental work and its pedagogically expedition organization, the ability to use wisely, to spend physical and spiritual strength.

The most effective way of professional self-education of a teacher is his participation in the creative search of the teaching staff, in the development of the innovative projects for the development of an educational institution, author's courses and pedagogical technologies.

Self-development has a double pedagogical result. On the one hand these are the changes that occur in personal development. To judge whether the teacher has mastered this ability, you can by whether he has learned to perform the following actions:

• goal setting:to set professionally significant goals and objectives for the self-development;

• planning: choose the methods, actions and techniques of self-development;

• self-control: compare the progress and results of self-development with what was planned;

• correction: make the necessary corrections to the results of work on yourself.

Conclusion. According to psychologists, the actvity of a person in such conditions van be directed to a better and more complete adaptation to the environment at the expense of their internal resources and their own reserves, where the key factor of dynamic development will be personal development. The old foundations, where organized, systematic self-education was carried out mainly in various courses, in circles, people's universities, etc., are insufficient. Their place is increasingly filled by the independent work of each person on various sources of knowledge with only a small consultation of specialists in particular field of science and practice.

List of literature

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2. Elagina V.S., Nemudraya E. Yu. Communicative activity as an important component of the teacher's pedagogical competence // International magazine of experimental education. – 2011. – No.5. – p 41-42