PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR CHARACTER EDUCATION
Journal Title: Актуальні питання гуманітарних наук: Міжвузівський збірник наукових праць молодих вчених Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 2
Abstract
The aim of the article is to point out the practical aspects of teachers’ professional training for character education. It was found out that the increase in the importance of character education in the educational surrounding of the United States is mainly caused by the youth’s moral illiteracy. The situation demands an appropriate training of future teachers in this field. We detected that section “Character Education” was introduced and added to the general university curriculum of the future teachers in a number of American universities. Except that, the importance of character education programs evaluation was noticed. The article looks at the integration of particular character education elements peculiarities and new studying pro- gram development requirements which are based on structural and complex approach so as to be added to the general degree curriculum. The emphasis was also made on the fact that future teachers master their character education professional skills by learning and analyzing the level of students’ moral education, as well as practical application of their knowledge. Practical experience of character education component integration was extensively studied on the example of bachelor degree programs at Boston University and St. Francis University. Major ways of character education train- ing for future teachers were determined: university value-oriented education, service-learning and character edu- cation itself; adding term paper topics which are directly related to character education and its implementation at schools; aiming faculty activity at the help for school districts and communities in the process of introducing character education in schools. The article states the goals of Character education-oriented courses: to identify the philosophical and psychologi- cal foundations of the character education; to compare and contrast pedagogical peculiarities that characterize each of the value-based learning approaches; to provide the examples of effective forms, methods and educational activities for classroom use, to provide teachers with educational materials that can be used to list the values and character traits in the school curriculum. It was revealed that he microclimate in the class is rather important; a specially designed course ‘The course ‘Discipline and Classroom Management Techniques in the Inclusionary Classroom’ that is devoted to the importance of creating a friendly and caring atmosphere in the class was reviewed.
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Svitlana OLISHKEVYCH
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