Professional Educational Environment Research Articles

Support for Novice Teachers in Secondary Schools

The article deals with the issue of in-service training and support for beginning teachers. It represents a project aimed at supporting novice secondary school teachers. It describes the outputs of the project and, above all, the main output of the project, which is an interactive support tool for beginning teachers - a web portal - created with the intention of supporting novice secondary school teachers when entering the professional educational environment.

Students of Russian law universities in the context of the state of the professional educational environment

The article is dedicated to the issues of professional socialisation of legal students in modern Russia. The relevance of this research topic is defined by the meaningfulness of the successful formation of professional legal culture among legal students while studying at university and professional socialisation from the perspective of increasing the overall level of legal culture in the society and the efficiency of its legal institutions. The latter contains especially topical social and practical aspects for the contemporary Russian society which still experiences the consequences of social anomia and weakened legal control describing the initial period of system reforms. Making an attempt to solve the task, the author resorts to the methodology of Parson’s structural functional approach, as well as to the socio-cultural approach. The author gives a detailed review of functional and role specific features of legal community and their value for modern developed society. According to the author’s opinion, effective formation of professional legal culture while studying at university is required to provide the functionality of lawyers which first and foremost is related to comprehension of the rule of law as the highest professional value. Within this framework legal students are considered as representatives of young generation of Russian people. The author is pointing at the dominance of pragmatic and individualistic mindset when they enter legal educational establishments, which creates potential risk for the rule of law to be devalued in their professional motivation. The article underlines the communal value of effective professional socialization of legal students. The author studies the features of educational environment as its agent emphasizing the factors of insufficiency of students’ socialization in legal universities from the point of view of shaping the value of the rule of law as the fundamental professional priority

Compliance of the Quality of Educational Services Provided by Vocational Education Institutions With the Labor Market Demand in Qualified Staff Under Economic Crisis

The labor potential in Ukraine functions under the economic crisis and social contradictions in society. At such times, there is a need to develop a mechanism for compliance of the educational services market with the labor market needs, taking into account the balance of supply and demand for labor. The article aims to thoroughly study the compliance of the quality of educational services provided by vocational education institutions (hereinafter - VEIs) to the needs of the regional labor market in qualified staff and professional career development. To conduct the research, the authors used a set of theoretical and empirical methods: theoretical. The authors have tested the analysis system of professional success of vocational education graduates and developed technology for evaluating the effectiveness and quality of educational services provided by VEIs. By the above, the authors offer to organize activities of Advisory Committees and Professional Councils in the field as an innovative interaction form between vocational education institutions and employers in the professional educational environment.

Didactic Design as the Basis for the Professional Spaces of Pedagogical Education

Problem statement reflects on the actual issues of creating the optimus for culturally oriented polylinguistic security of the current professional educational environment. Moreover, the focus is on its didactic design within the frameworks of pedagogical design determined as the most problematic aspect of the national education due to its permanent transformations. The goal of the article is to present a didactic design as a valuable component of the professional culture of the teacher of the future that requires reasonable conditions for effective interaction of the participants of the educational process. The research context is based on the leading principles of environmental and multifunctional approaches in pedagogical science and practice. Moreover, the pedagogical design focused on the ideal track of personal development in the aspect of changing the format of communication-oriented learning, functions as the leading methodological message of this micro-research. The results of the study are reflected in the presentation of a multi-level model for the formation of a portfolio of educational practices for students and adults of specialists. The portfolio positioned as a factor and condition for a positive impact on the online (e-learning; on-line) education market in a polyphonic sounding and multilingual content of the information and communication space, subject to language security. In conclusion, the conditions of genuine communication of participants in the creation of pedagogical design of continuing education are clarified in terms of maintaining psychological balance and in the aspect of critical understanding of the content-based technology of culturally oriented practices of professional formation and personal growth within the framework of the national project “Teachers of the Future”.

Professionally Oriented Tasks in the System of Professional Training of Musical Art Teachers

The relevance of the chosen topic of the article is determined by the need of definition of the tasks in the system of professional training of musical art teachers, that are focused on work, as the integration of higher musical and pedagogical education of Ukraine in the world educational and cultural space based on the principles of national and ethno cultural interests, preservation and development of the Ukrainian intellectual potential of the nation, peacekeeping orientation of international cooperation, tolerance and adaptation in the assessment of mastering and achievements in the field of art culture of different nationalities, puts forward new requirements for the training of future musical art teachers (FMAT) in the field of higher education institutions (HEI).The article analyzes the theoretical developments on the topic, specifies the tasks in the system of vocational training of musical art teachers in the works of researchers and scientists, the experience of future musical teachers in higher educational institutions. These conditions include: ensuring the motivation of students to professionally solve educational problems by immersing FMAT in an innovative professional educational environment; application of innovative methods of design of educational activities of students in the process of studying the disciplines "Pedagogy", "Musical Pedagogy" to enrich the technical knowledge of the FMAT; to help students to realize the need for continuous professional self-improvement in the process of passing various types of educational practice. The implementation of a certain educational factor was aimed at forming a specific component of the phenomenon under study.

Compliance of the Quality of Educational Services Provided by Vocational Education Institutions with the Labor Market Demand in Qualified Staff under Economic Crisis

The article aims to thoroughly study the compliance of the quality of educational services provided by vocational education institutions (hereinafter - VEIs) to the needs of the regional labor market in qualified staff and professional career development. The authors have tested the analysis system of professional success of vocational education graduates and developed technology for evaluating the effectiveness and quality of educational services provided by VEIs. By the above, the authors offer to organize activities of Advisory Committees and Professional Councils in the field as an innovative interaction form between vocational education institutions and employers in the professional educational environment.

Organizational and pedagogical conditions of scientific and methodological work efficiency in pedagogical higher educational establishments

The article deals with the problem of ensuring scientific and methodological work efficiency in higher educational establishments, in particular pedagogical ones. Based on the analysis and generalization of scientific literature and practical experience, the essence of key concepts is determined: condition; organizational and pedagogical condition, efficiency. Certain aspects of the place and the role of scientific and methodological work in the holistic pedagogical process of higher educational establishment are identified, which provides professional training of students in the context of cooperation pedagogy. The main problems are highlighted and their consideration in the scientific and methodological work planning process is outlined. It is noted that an important condition for the improvement of scientific and methodological work is the concretization of its areas, which are named and meaningfully characterized. Approaches to the development of scientific bases for effective quality management of the educational process in a higher education establishment, a component of which is scientific and methodological work, are proposed. The essence and the significance of the system diagnostics are clarified, the results of which are decisive for the formation of the content and the development of forms of scientific and methodological work in pedagogical higher educational establishment. According to the results of the research, the pedagogical conditions (external and internal) are singled out, the creation of which is conditioned by the efficiency of the formation of scientific and methodical work system in higher educational establishments, their generalized characteristics are presented. The organic interrelation of the professional educational environment, in particular in pedagogical higher educational establishments, with scientific and methodical work, which is its structural element, is illustrated. The influence of high-quality professional educational environment on increasing the level of the methodological competence of both teachers and future ones is stated.

Типы внутригрупповой референтности в образовательной среде вуза и их характеристика

One of the key functions of the professional educational environment of the university is to satisfy the need for social orientation of each member of the educational and professional community (group, course, creative association). The person who is integrated into the new social conditions is faced with the task of forming ideas about the profession, about the image of a professional, about a model for mastering professional competencies. In this regard, the social environment and the nature of relations in it are of great importance. The carrier of social environment determinants is a social group that has a system of values, standards of behavior, attitudes that will not be equally significant for each member of the group – group reference characteristics are refracted through the prism of personal choice, the experience of each member of the group, who has mastered patterns of behavior and interaction. Each social group has a certain degree of reference. The article analyzes the types of intragroup reference based on a combination of indicators of group cohesion and the type of interpersonal behavior, predicts the dynamics of the development of relations in a group with one or another type of reference and describes the effect of each type on the effectiveness of educational and professional activities.

Создание иноязычной профессиональной образовательной среды для студентов-журналистов (на материалах публикаций в американской журнальной прессе)

Создание иноязычной профессиональной образовательной среды для студентов-журналистов (на материалах публикаций в американской журнальной прессе)

Разработка модели формирования экологического мировоззрения студентов среднего профессионального образования

The article is devoted to the search for methodological, theoretical and didactic basic for a modern model of the formation of the ecological worldview of college students. The author made a substantiation of the main components of the model. A two-level concept of the formation of the ecological worldview of students of secondary professional education (SPE) and a set of pedagogical conditions for its implementation are proposed. The proposed model for the formation of the ecological worldview of students of secondary vocational education on the basis of a system-activity approach in the educational process can be pedagogically effective by including in the training and education processes such forms and methods that will put students in the position of researchers and discoverers. In the modern professional educational environment, the training of competitively capable graduates who are ready to withstand the socio-economic changes that arise in society and are able to take responsibility for decisions made becomes one of the main directions of the educational process in institutions of higher and secondary professional education.

УСЛОВИЯ СОЗДАНИЯ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНО ВОСПИТЫВАЮЩЕЙ СРЕДЫ ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТОВ С ОСОБЫМИ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫМИ ПОТРЕБНОСТЯМИ

Problem and purpose. The urgency of the problem of successful adaptation of students with special educational needs to study at a technical University is determined by the requirement of the formation of professional competencies of students laid down in the regulations (Federal Education Act, order of the Ministry of Education). That includes the competitiveness of such students in the world job market and the ability to perform innovative management. The purpose of the present study is to substantiate the proposed pedagogical conditions that contribute to the formation of professional culture of students with special educational needs, including the ability to strengthen their health, which contributes to their successful professional adaptation, in general, and increase educational productivity, in particular. The analysis of pedagogical literature shows the lack of study of professional adaptation of students with special educational needs at technical university. The methodology of the study is based on anthropological approach in education (K.D. Ushinsky, O.S. Grebenyuk, N.M. Borytko et al.); as well as the idea of health-saving, competence, comprehensive and systematic approaches to the implementation of psychological and pedagogical research. The results. The article presents a model of the process of formation of professional culture of students with special educational needs and defines the conditions for creating a professional educational environment for them using pedagogical technologies of contextual learning, teaching through learning and multi-level learning. Experimental test of proposed educational conditions has confirmed the effectiveness of the interaction between the subjects of the educational process. Conclusion. The proposed pedagogical conditions really contribute to the formation of professional culture of students with special educational needs, including certain behaviors that allow them to cope with adaptation difficulties, improve their health and learning skills. Up to one third of students with special educational needs of 228 respondents who participated in the study, report improving their health. The study convinced us that it is necessary to create a professional educational environment for such students.

Проектирование профессионально-образовательной среды педагога в условиях внедрения и освоения стандарта профессиональной деятельности (на материале системы образования Ленинградской области)

On the example of the educational system of Leningrad oblast the authors analyse how the environmental approach can be used in the implementation of the professional standard for teachers. The issues concerning the process of the implementation and acquisition of the professional standard are discussed in relation to the innovative project “Safe Educational Environment” carried out in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Education. This project is aimed at setting up the most socially significant components of professional and educational environment as well as at creating and testing a system of psychological safety support for subjects of the educational process in the region. The authors emphasize the advantages of the system approach that implies the introduction of various innovations in education and helps to achieve a synergistic effect in the teacher’s professional activity. Also, they show how the methodology of the environmental approach may be employed in the designing of professional educational environment as one of the technologies in the teacher’s practice.

Modern Principles of Educational Process at the Secondary Vocational and Professional Training

A humanitarian and professional educational environment, computer-information technology of educational institution for the professional education are formed on the basis for formation of links between studied general education, humanitarian, social, economic, technical disciplines and composing criteria – characteristics of educating-behavioral pedagogic education, coordinate components of logical-meaning model of an individual, structure-logical activity scheme of a specialist, criteria for the pedagogical system assessment of efficiency. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n1s2p72