Practice-Oriented Approach to the Establishing of Professional Self-Organization among Future Higher Education Teachers

Abstract

Contemporary educational system is focused on developing the appropriate ways of equipping future teachers with significant information, skills and abilities that will help them to establish themselves as professionals. The paper considers the problems of improving the learning process of teachers in higher education. Emphasis is placed on the fact that there has been a change in the vector of the educational process towards the learning outcomes from a knowledge-based approach to a practice-oriented approach. The contextual preparation of future high school teachers for self-organization in professional fields refers to a model of the educational environment. According to this model, the subject and social content of the future profession has to be established and professionally oriented situations of self-organization projected. The current goals, objectives, and requirements have to be taken into consideration. To study the level of establishment of the activityrelated and practical components of the competence of self-organization among future teachers in higher education in their professional field, a number of efficient methods are applied. The authors consider all the benefits, challenges, and risks related to the establishment of self-organization among teachers in their profession.