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INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO THE ORGANIZATION OF EDUCATION ON THE BASIS OF PEDAGOGICAL COLLABORATION
М. Kalandarova
The article defines the tasks and role of a teacher in the teaching process, highlights the importance of cooperation between teacher and students based on their pedagogical communication, and characterizes an innovative approach to organizing pedagogical collaboration.
Key words: collaboration, innovation technology, intelligence, teacher, student, didactic process, training, partnership, pedagogical process.
Pedagogical communication is the basic principle of collaboration. Thanks to this principle, favorable conditions for realization of the educational process are provided. Pedagogical communication creates opportunities for transfer of information and exchange of views, and moreover, it provides positive motivation for students’ active cognitive activities.
It is important in pedagogical communication for a student to be able to justify his/her opinion and to get confirmation of its rightfulness and reasonableness. For this purpose, the teacher must create necessary conditions and instill in students self-confidence and develop their self-examination and selfevaluation skills; but the main task of the collaboration is to impart skills to work in a group on the basis of mutual respect and empathy. The creation of a collaborative atmosphere requires that the teacher knows the interests, needs of students, and the students’ potential capabilities.
The tasks of pedagogical collaboration are diverse and, above all, socioperceptual function of this activity type should be mentioned. From the psychological point of view, the dialogue between teacher and student creates the basis for mutual understanding and interaction. But the success of communication depends on the means of communication used by the teacher. Everything is important: movements, gestures, mimics, voice timbre and lung-power, the teacher’s appearance, and his/her emotions, which all influence the formation or modeling of a student’s personality. Modeling of personality means development of aptitudes, goals, and approaches to life. Students permanently observe behavior patterns, and the teacher’s mood, and they influence the building of relations in the class. They feel the sincerity and interest of the pedagogue in the process of communication, the informal attitude to what he/she says or does, and respond to the teacher’s recommendations or requirements accordingly. Such communication may be considered to be productive. Of course, a teacher must know techniques on how to prepare children for cooperation, and create necessary psychological and pedagogical conditions for joint activities.
An important condition for organization of communication is to establish equality in the relations between teacher and student, when the teacher becomes an equal partner, assistant, and adviser in the educational and cognitive process. The activities of a teacher in this collaboration are characterized by the following
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features: (а) a drive for constant development and deepening of collaborative relations; (b) demonstration of his/her individuality, getting away from stereotypes; (c) readiness for the renewal of methods and techniques of collaboration, making adjustments depending on the pedagogical situation.
The primary goal of pedagogical collaboration is intellectual development of students. By planning a forthcoming lesson, the teacher prepares not only his/her own presentation of the new educational material, but also sets out stages for an independent search for information by students, the exchange of such information, and joint activities. At that, provision of pedagogical assistance and support from the teacher is also planned. Creation of conditions to support the fruitful activities of each student is provided as well. Organization of pedagogical collaboration is a complex process, and its complexity lies in building a communications structure. It is necessary to assure sequence of the components and observance of communication stages. The following components and levels of communication are identified in pedagogics: (1) modeling of the anticipated communication of the teacher with students; (2) organization of the communication itself; (3) management of communication in the process of collaboration; (4) analysis of the system and results of communication in the process of activities being realized.
Modeling is considered to be an important stage of pedagogical collaboration. The teacher must imagine and project the process of communication on carrying out joint activities. Free communication of a teacher with students at the first stage of a lesson (not necessarily within the program) serves as good preparation for pedagogical cooperation, since an unstrained communication environment is created in which skills and communicational culture are developed and improved. In this situation, students try to show initiative, and the teacher should subtly manage the process of communication. At the initial stage of collaboration the pedagogue determines working conditions, identifies the mood of students, and their psychological and didactic readiness to perform the planned tasks. At this moment it is important to set and explain objectives of joint activities, to determine the degree of involvement of teacher and students in it. As the result, environment for direct interaction and collaboration of the teacher with students is created.
A special feature of pedagogical communication is that the teacher manages the communication process, takes initiative in the dialogue, and takes it in the right direction. The dialogue is the beginning of cooperation, which ensures the integrity of the educational process. Analysis of communication helps to determine the efficiency level of the objective, means and results of collaborative activities, and to identify shortcomings and weaknesses in the technique. The teacher clarifies and makes additions to the developed technique on the basis of the analysis, orienting above all on students’ intellectual and personal development.
Translated from Russian by Znanije Central Translastions Bureas
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