Lecture 2

Theme: Teacher Education

The qualities necessary for effective work a teacher — nowadays one of the most widespread public professions which arose owing to as need of education and training of the next generations for more successful and their fast entry into public life, and growth of public opportunities for the maintenance of the certain people who are carrying out these tasks.

Confucius writes:

The teacher's task — to open new prospect to reflections of the pupil.

Teaching and teachers are known since the most ancient times of mankind, however the most widespread profession it became only rather recently.

Only a century ago most of the population even the European countries was compelled to solve problems of education and training mainly means of the national (family) pedagogics which had as positive (about what often forget or even officials from education consciously hold back), and negative sides. And individuals for education, training children were employed only by not numerous well-to-do of the population (tsars, the nobility and clergy etc.) or carried out in the narrowly professional purposes and only as required (military preparation, training in craft etc.).

According to the classification of E. A. Klimov, the pedagogical profession belongs to group of professions which subject is other person. But the pedagogical profession from some other is allocated, first of all, on views of its representatives, an increased feeling of a debt and responsibility. In this regard the pedagogical profession costs independently, being allocated in separate group. Its main difference from other professions like "man to man " is that it treats both a class transforming, and a class of the operating professions at the same time. Having formation and transformation of the personality as the purpose of the activity, the teacher is urged to operate process of her intellectual, emotional and physical development, formation of her inner world.