Facilitating Academic Activity at Teachers’ Training College: Methods and Forms

Abstract

Teachers’ training colleges prepare future school teachers for professional activities in the context of the current modernization of the education system. The article describes the results of an experiment in raising the efficiency of academic activities in college students of pedagogy using modern education technologies. By activating their academic activities, future teachers facilitate the acquisition of theoretical material, as well as develop various practical skills. The project involved interactive, reverse, problem-based, and project-based learning technologies. The article illustrates successful cases of applying reverse learning technology and active forms of constructive interaction at a teachers’ training college. It offers optimal organizational and pedagogical conditions that allow students to master vital professional and personal competencies. The key methods included project-based learning, business games, and problem-based learning; forms of in-class activities involved lecture feedback discussions, seminars, workshops, and tutorials. These methods and forms develop creative and critical thinking, as well as provide experience of independent work. Interactive methods and digital technologies guarantee a visual and comprehensible academic process. The project resulted in a systematic approach to the organization of academic activities, in which students control their own learning process while acquiring analytical, communicative, and professional competencies. The authors believe that modern teachers’ training colleges should provide a wider range of methods and forms of organizing academic activities.

Keywords

• intensification of future teachers’ training
• modern education technologies
• reversive learning
• methods of activation
• organizational forms of academic activity
• constructive interaction