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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme:
To educate a qualified pedagogue who is able to competently work in formal and non-formal educational institutions.
Learning outcomes:
The graduate will be able to:
1. Reasonably apply pedagogical management and didactic principles planning and organising the learning process.
2. Explain regularities of psychology applying their principles in practical activities.
3. Prepare a design of research into the pedagogical activity and conduct the research.
4. Analyse, reasonably evaluate and generalise pedagogical activity results.
5. Considering pupils’ special needs, purposefully choose and apply modern learning technologies in practical activities.
6. Productively cooperate and work in a team with other participants of the pedagogical process.
7. Create innovations, grounding them on motives of improving pedagogical activities.
8. Considering the specificity of pedagogical work, to identify one’s learning needs and choose ways of professional development.
Activities of teaching and learning:
Methods used for contact work: lecture/active listening; engaging lecture, demonstration; explanation; problem-based conversation; problem-based learning in groups; informative and heuristic conversations; analysis of a video-fragment; debates; discussions; tutorials, work in groups, work in pairs; presentation and reflection on personal experience; feedback; simulation and contextual practical sessions: commenting, explanation, moderation; creative practical sessions: brainstorm, map of ideas, patchwork/gallery, etc.
Methods used in self-study: analysis of literature, simulation and analysis of pedagogical activity: data collection, recording, analysis and generalisation; creative research methods: observation, experimenting, exploratory conversation; interpretation of research data and formulation of recommendations; assistance to the mentor; independent work while giving lessons; portfolio of studies, etc.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
Methods of assessment of learning achievements: written examination; generalisation of discussions in groups; presentation of a project; public defence of a thesis; correspondence of individual and group work to content and structure requirements; critical evaluation of presentation of generalised autonomous work and experience; generalisation of work in groups and critical evaluation; self-assessment of role play in team work; collection, recording of observation data and presentation of the report on evaluation of results; description of the analysis of pedagogical experience; individual reflection and self-reflection in the written form; analysis of reflexive notes; analysis of a problem-based situation, accuracy and justification of formulation of a solution; preparation and presentation of the plan of assistance for a mentor; preparation of substantiated recommendations for improvement of one’s pedagogical activity; assessment of structure and content of portfolio of studies; self-assessment.
Students’ achievements are assessed using cumulative score system, where final mark consists of intermediate and examination marks.
Examination mark makes up 50 per cent of the final mark. The teacher establishes the weight of separate constituents of intermediate accountings for the final mark, considering the following proportions: the mark for the intermediate accounting (colloquium) makes up 15-35 per cent of the final mark; evaluations of self-study assignments, homework, other assignments make up 5-35 per cent of the final mark.
Students’ work is assessed using a ten score assessment system.
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
Study programme consists of 54 study credits.
Obligatory course units (21 study credits): general pedagogy, general didactics, pedagogical psychology, planning of the educational process, researches on pedagogical activity.
Pedagogical practical training (30 study credits): pedagogical assistance practice; pedagogical cooperation practice; pedagogical activity practice.
Final thesis (3 study credits): final thesis of pedagogical studies.
Specialisations:
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Optional courses:
Optional course units (6 study credits) (two course units during the whole study period): methodology of the delivered subject; general and social psychology; special pedagogy and psychology; creativity development strategies; education in heterogenic groups; (self-)educational systems; pedagogical management and law; ICT in the educational process; philosophical foundations of education; foundations of andragogy activities; project activities.
Distinctive features of a study programme:
Universities (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Siauliai University, Klaipeda University) cooperation agreement on the basis of the study program has the potential to combine organizational, professional knowledge and skills in accordance with the joint and several liability and the principle of equal partnership.
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
A graduate who has acquired the pedagogue’s qualification can work in comprehensive schools, vocational training institutions, higher education institutions, non-formal institutions of education and training, non-governmental organisations, can do pedagogical work in other sectors of activity requiring pedagogical education.
Access to further study:
Has the right to undertake the second cycle Master Degree studies in the fields of education and training.
