PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE AS A PART OF THE PROFESSIONAL PRE-SERVICE GEOGRAPHY TEACHER TRAINING AND SELECTED AS-PECTS OF ITS ASSESSMENT

Abstract

Pedagogical practice during university studies enables to develop, verify or correct professional qualifications and competencies of future geography tea-chers. It is an integral part of the pre-service teacher training; it builds on the theoretical and professional-didactic preparation, enables immediate contacts with school practice and confronts the degree of readiness for the teaching pro-fession. In the paper, we deal with some aspects of performance assessment of geography students at Prešov University in the context of continuous pedagogical practice in the final year of the master's degree program. On the basis of as-sessments made by training teachers, we want to find out which competencies of future geography teachers are reflected as adequately mastered, which of them have reserves with the need for intervention in the intentions of university educa-tion, especially with regard to the teaching of geography didactics.

Keywords

• geography didactics
• pedagogical practice
• pre-service teacher tra-ining
• professional competencies
• assessment