REQUIREMENTS FOR TRAINING UNIVERSITY TEACHERS CONCEPT AND ITS ALTERNATIVE DISPOSITION

Abstract

Summary. It is defined withing the work that the educational reform is gradually changing its long lasting concept of requirements for research and teaching staff, the emphasis of which is focused on improving and enhancement of scientific work, the structure and the depth of disciplines content, methods of teaching etc. The major problem, as it has been identified, is the gap between a high school teacher training system itself, sticked to adjustments and improvements and the up to date requirements to the system. Consequently, there is an urgent need to analyze the study of how the educator is seen by educational applicants and the scientific community throughout the world. There is also a huge demand in identifying the potential of emulating the best experience of training teachers, taking into account the ongoing changes. The study examined the different views of applicants for education and scientists of developed countries on how they want to see scientific and pedagogical workers of the present. It was determined that there are some basic requirements for a high school educator. They are: teacher-expert knowledge and practical skills in the field, possession of research methods, development of programs for an academic discipline or course, teaching subject or a course, analysis of teaching, course management, possession of methods and techniques of academic research for educational purposes, psychometry and statistics, epistemology, theory of teaching and learning, information technology, programs developing, graphic design, rhetoric and presentation to the public, manner of communication and interralations, dealing with conflicts, resources and personnel managment, consulting, financing and budgeting, analysis and development of the institution’s policy. Apart from that a scientific and pedagogical employee of high school is expected to have knowledge of the subject that is taught, a desire to help students master the subject and give immediate advice when a student asks for help or explanation. The teacher is expected to have a sense of humor with an active social position. The educator is also considered to be a bearer of universal values, to be comprehensive and knowledgeable in the field of education; to have patience to educational applicants who make mistakes in learning. They are seen as expediently demanding; tolerant in communication; decent in relation to students; fair, honest, kind, sympathetic, modern, easy to communicate, tactful, sociable, objective, caring and empathetic as well. It is proved that educational characteristics and qualifications of a teacher and an administrator of high school require a radical change in unified academic disciplines and individual training modules and their reorientation in order to obtain appropriate competencies and create interesting interdisciplinary courses.