Archive | 2021
The Development of Readiness for the Educational Activities in Teachers of Higher Military Educational Institutions
Abstract
The subject matter reflects the experience of the National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine in teacher training. In addition, it displays the results of the pedagogical experiment on implementing the conditions for the development of readiness for the educational activities in teachers of higher military educational institutions and prospective teachers of military units. 230 teachers were involved in the experiment under the two postgraduate education programs. Program 1 aimed at improving pedagogical skills and the educational process while Program 2 focused on the foreign languages teaching methods. The updated pedagogical conditions for teaching under Program 1 comprised new content modules such as Interactive teaching methods and Strategic communication in the educational process and teaching a demo lesson, during the discussion of which the teacher must report to the staff of the department on the competencies he/she had gained upon the training and used them further when preparing and conducting this lesson. The new pedagogical conditions for studying Program 2 encompass the extension of the course duration; the application of modern technical tools in the learning process; the practical component implementation; increase and diversification of interactive teaching methods; involvement of foreign language teachers among native speakers and the use of information and technology forms of learning (distance learning). According to the experiment results, the teachers of experimental groups revealed a higher level of readiness for educational activities.