Professional development of educators: characteristic features of distance learning

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Until recently, educators in preschool educational institutions, in children's camps and sanatoriums were preparing for future work according to one system - the Soviet one. Such a "tracing paper" made it possible to produce specialists of standard comprehensive training, who were equally highly valued both in the capital and in settlements. But times are changing. Russian education is gradually moving from Soviet standards to programs of a different type. Today, continuous improvement of specialists is valued. His most common method is the advanced training of educators, by correspondence and distance learning. We will talk about him further.

What is Distance Education?

Distance education is an online training course implemented using an Internet resource, in many ways reminiscent of a social network we are used to. It belongs to the organizing university and is developed specifically for distance learning. At the end of the course, the same certificates, certificates of advanced training are issued as studentstraditional part-time, part-time programs.

Educational materials are delivered by e-mail, on flash drives, disks, regular mail in the form of brochures. Communication with teachers is conducted via Skype or similar video communication technologies. The main ways here are as follows:

• Chat classes. Synchronous learning processes. The teacher and course participants are connected to the chat at the same time.
• Web lessons. They can take place in many variations - videoconferences, seminars, trainings, workshops, educational role-playing games, laboratory work based on text communication on the Internet. Most often, these are asynchronous processes based on educational forums (often additional software is required).
• Teleconferences. This is the name of the complex mailing of e-mails to all course participants. They contain both training materials, assignments, as well as information about seminars, chats, certification deadlines, and so on.
• Telepresence. The latest way to learn. These are video chats that create the appearance of being in the classroom with the teacher and other course participants.

Key benefits of distance education

What is good about distance education? Many choose this method due to the fact that it allows you to gain knowledge in a cozy and comfortable home environment. Also, the method is also distinguished by the following characteristics:

• Accessibility. The course of such training is not only lower in price. The method eliminates the cost of travel, rental housing foradvanced training in another city.
• Individual approach to each student of the program.
• High quality learning guaranteed by the use of electronic libraries, presentations, educational applications, multimedia materials, etc.
• Creating a unified educational environment (especially valuable for corporate training).
• No strict time limits. Training can be built according to a scheme convenient for you.

The most common programs

Increasing the qualifications of educators is an acquaintance with the latest developments, programs, courses in their field of activity, an in-depth study of the subject. In addition, this is an expansion of the scope of professional activity. Let's say the educator receives the skills of a psychologist. Or the head of any artistic direction - singing, drawing, modeling.

Today, the most common examples of teacher development would be:

• Practical child psychology.
• Content of the Federal State Educational Standard (for preschool education), technologies for following it.
• Speech therapy and psychological work with minors.

We invite the reader to get acquainted with these areas in detail.

Practical Child Psychology

This teacher development program is for:

• social educators;
• caregivers in nurseriesgardens;
• teachers, employees of preschool organizations.

The advanced training program is 140-150 hours. Cost: 10-20 thousand rubles. Education here, depending on the training center, can be not only part-time, part-time, but also remote. Certificates of advanced training are of the same type.

Thematic modules (sections) of the program are as follows:

• Psychology preschool.
• Psychology special for children.
• Counseling and child psychology.
• Psychological preparation of the child for school.
• Psychodiagnostics in schooling.
• Psychology of childhood deprivation.

Technologies of reference, content of GEF

These Career Development Courses are for the following professionals:

• Physical education teachers.
• Caregivers and senior caregivers.
• Methodists.
• Child psychologists.
• Employees of musical children's schools.
• Heads of kindergartens, etc.

Duration of these advanced training courses for educators: 100-110 academic hours. Approximately two months of training. The average cost of an educational program is within 10 thousand rubles. Courses are available in full-time, evening, remote form.

Increasing the qualifications of teachers and educators here is an acquaintance with the following thematic modules:

• The content of the activities of educators and teachers in preschool institutionsafter switching to the Federal State Educational Standard.
• Innovative methods of working with children in preschool educational institutions.
• FSES DO is a priority standard for the development of educational preschool institutions in Russia.
• Preschool education as one of the tools for the implementation of the Federal State Standard.
• Algorithms for the application of the most important educational and educational programs in preschool.
• Requirements for the implementation of the Federal State Standard.

Speech therapy and psychological work

Who is this teacher training course intended for? Designed for:

• Specialists with secondary or higher vocational education interested in their development in the field of child psychology and speech therapy.
• Educators in preschool.
• Educators in preschools.
• Child psychologists.
• Social workers.
• Last year students in pedagogical universities.

Total preparation time: 5 months (180-200 academic hours). The cost of training is appropriate - within 50 thousand rubles. Further training of educators remotely in this direction is also possible.

Standard content of the program is as follows:

• Innovative and traditional methods and techniques used in the correction of speech disorders, the mental development of children.
• Traditional and modern aspects of working inspeech therapy and psychology.
• Techniques of speech therapy, psychological, correctional work in relation to family education, training, development, social adaptation of preschool children (including children with a number of developmental disorders).

Top universities for training

Refresher courses for educators (remotely, in absentia, in person) are open at many pedagogical, humanitarian institutes and universities. The listeners themselves distinguish the following from their set:

• Institute for distance professional development (operates throughout the Russian Federation).
• ISPT (Moscow).
• ISO (Voronezh).
• MIPK named after Fedorov (Moscow).
• NOUR (St. Petersburg).

We also offer to analyze a number of popular educational centers.

RAZVITUM

The advanced training of preschool teachers here is carried out remotely (using Internet technologies). Upon completion of training, a certificate of completion of the advanced training program at ANO "SPB TsDPO" is issued in the established form.

Program directions in RAZVITUM are as follows:

• Pedagogical support for the child in the educational environment.
• Development of creative thinking in children and adolescents.
• Increasing the qualifications of educators according to GEF.
• He alth-saving technologies of the educational process in DO according to GEF.
• Development of cognitive abilities, emotional sphere in a child.
• Prevention of the syndrome in teachers"professional burnout".
• Innovative methods of organizing the social and personal development of a preschooler.
• Developing a child's psychological resilience to the media.
• Modern approaches to the organization of the educational process in DO.
• Informatization of the practical activities of the educator, modern pedagogical employment.
• The content of the work of a speech therapist psychologist, the organization of his activities.
• Fundamentals of correctional pedagogy and special child psychology.
• Models of inclusive education for children with disabilities according to the Federal Education Standard in the Russian Federation.
• Methods for early diagnosis, correction and prevention of speech disorders in preschoolers.

Pedagogical Campus

Further education courses for educators in "Pedagogical Campus" are popular. Duration of training here: 2-3 weeks. The cost of the educational program: 4-6 thousand rubles.

The areas of preparation are as follows:

• Methods for the implementation of pedagogical and educational activities within the framework of the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard.
• Pedagogical technologies, designing the educational and educational process within the framework of the implementation of the Federal State Standard.
• Systematic activity approach in education and upbringing in the context of the GEF.
• Innovative technologies and trends in pedagogy and education in the framework of the implementation of the Federal State Educational Standard.
• Development of the skill of the educator,his professional competence.

Northern Capital

This innovative educational center offers 72-hour advanced training courses for kindergarten teachers. Upon their completion, a certificate of the established form is issued.

There are two areas of preparation here:

• Topical issues on the content and organization of the educational process in kindergartens in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard. Part-time education worth 4,000 rubles.
• The use of innovative and information technologies in the work of the educator of distance education within the framework of the Federal State Educational Standard. Distance learning worth 4,000 rubles.

Volgograd Humanitarian Academy for Vocational Training of Social Sphere Specialists

At the end of training, a diploma is issued, indicating professional retraining. Duration of training: 288-512 hours. Cost (depending on the duration of the course): 12-17 thousand rubles. The form of education is remote.

The Education Center offers the following programs:

• Preschool pedagogy: development and education of children in preschool.
• Early development teacher: pedagogical and psychological development of children at the first stages of ontogeny.
• Methodist of preschool education: design and subsequent implementation of organizational and pedagogical activities according to the Federal State Educational Standard.

Here you and I got acquainted with advanced training courseseducators in modern reality. Confident positions today have taken distance learning. Educational centers offer a lot of training programs on favorable and convenient terms.