Content Of Training Courses Research Articles

Content of Australian Training Courses in School Psychology

ABSTRACTAustralian tertiary training programs in educational psychology were surveyed to determine whether each program included each of nine coursework areas. Common to all courses were training in psychoeducational assessment and research methodology. Half of the surveyed programs included training in either counselling or behavioural techniques, but not both. The paper advocates a closer relationship between the content of training courses and the development of a “school psychologist” identity among practitioners.

User education and training

A number of data base producers are offering or developing training schemes designed to help on‐line users acquaint themselves with the construction of their data bases. In this issue we describe the philosophy and content of training courses offered by BIOSIS and INSPEC.

АРХІТЕКТУРА ТА ФУНКЦІОНАЛЬНІСТЬ WEB – МУЛЬТИМЕДІА ЕНЦИКЛОПЕДІЇ «ІСТОРІЯ ПЕДАГОГІКИ»

Актуальність матеріалу, викладеного у статті, обумовлена необхідністю імплементації трисуб’єктної дидактичної моделі підготовки сучасного педагога та формування інформатичних компетентностей у майбутніх вчителів молодшої школи. WEB-мультимедіа енциклопедія «Історія педагогіки» (http://webhp.ksu.ks.ua) задає ідеологію нового інструментарію навчання і здатна не тільки забезпечити засвоєння курсу на високому рівні, але й постійно оновлювати зміст навчального предмета (за рахунок створення і використання нових компонентів), істотно інтенсифікувати процес пізнання, а також підтримати індивідуальну траєкторію навчання.

Training of Teachers

A DETERMINATION that teachers, as a body, should not be inferior to other professions in respect of their education and training led the National Union of Teachers to undertake two years ago an investigation of the whole question of the training of teachers and the grants available for the purpose. The investigating committee, composed of six members of the Union's executive and six representatives of university training departments, of training colleges and of secondary schools, completed its work last February, and the report has been published in the form of a book of 360 pages including a summary of the principal conclusions formulated in 95 articles. These range over a wide field, including recruitment and placing as well as training. Although a number of the recommendations concern the content of training courses, the committee regarded such things as internal matters for the training institutions. In a preliminary chapter a strong case is made out for requiring some actual experience of teaching practice before admission to a training institution, this being desirable less for its intrinsic value than as a test of aptitude for the career of a teacher, for it is notorious that many recipients of grants for training have no such aptitude nor even any serious desire to take up teaching as a profession. It is proposed to make an officer of the local education authority report on the teaching potentialities, personality and general suitability for the teaching profession of every applicant for a place in a university training department or training college.