Модель организации самостоятельной работы будущих педагогов на основе информационно-коммуникационных технологий

Abstract

This paper introduces a model for organizing bachelor students’ self-study within the framework of the competency-based approach. The target students are majoring in teaching general technical disciplines. This model has been implemented at M.T. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University in teaching English for specific purposes. It includes four integrated units describing self-study objectives, design, organizing and evaluation process. Students’ self-study experience aims to develop the competences that are vital for future teachers: professional English competency and professional information and communication (ICT) competency. The article also introduces dictionaries for ICT and professional English competencies that can be used to assess the self-study efficiency. Professional English competency consists of existential, communicative, social and evaluative components. Professional ICT competency is related to skills a teacher needs to create an e-course. Thus, ICT-competency is viewed here as a set of competencies that are classified as basic ICT skills, information presentation skills and evaluation design skills in MOODLE. In order to put the developed model into practice and organize students’ self-study outside the classroom, an e-course for learning English for professional purposes was created in MOODLE. Introducing e-learning into English courses for future teachers will be more effective if it is based on the projects method. To ensure higher efficiency, we have applied here the principle of cross-curricular teaching, which allows students to gain knowledge and skills in more than one academic discipline. While working on their projects in MOODLE, students not only acquire professional English competency but also learn how to create e-courses on their own and strengthen their knowledge in the topic of their research (in our case, History of physics). Thus, by implementing the synergy principle the suggested model helps develop students’ professional competence and better prepare them for the professional world. The suggested model of organizing students’ self-study also helps build psychological, pedagogical and methodical competencies which definitely contribute to its efficacy.