REFORMING OF TEACHER EDUCATION: ADAPTATION OF INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
SHANDRUK SVITLANA IVANIVNA –
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor
Department of Linguodidactics and Foreign Languages
Kirovohrad Vynnychenko State Pedagogical University
e-mail: [email protected]
Summary
Reform of the educational sector of Ukraine is using world experience of human adaptation to life under competitive conditions of contemporary society. The integration of Ukrainian education system into European and world educational space is associated with the rethinking of national experience, finding mechanisms of adaptation of positive foreign experience to modern realities.
International experience of scientific analysis of teacher training in the US in the context of studying is of particular interest. The USA has convincing pedagogical achievements and the developed system of professional preparation of teachers. Theory and practice of education in the USA is based on old multinational and historical traditions and depend on public policy in the sphere of education.
New approaches need considerable strategic and procedural reforms of both the system of public higher education and the state general system that will be resulted in modernization of long-term strategies and methods that do not answer modern demands. These reforms will need collaboration of leaders of higher education, governors and public school administrators in overcoming of political barriers and support of new idea of professional preparation of teachers.
Positive experience of maintaining high quality professional preparation of American teachers, which was found out during research, correlates with specific tasks of modernization of national education, exposes new sources of innovation, management and improvement of pre-service and post-graduate pedagogical education in Ukraine.
Key words: reforming of education, system of teacher education, professional teacher training, international experience, integration, adaptation.
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