Pedagogical activity is such a human profession in which the transfer of pedagogical, social, and cultural experience is realized from generation to generation. Its core is the interaction of the teacher and his students.
Pedagogical excellence is the highest level of pedagogical activity, it manifests itself in teacher creativity and the continuous improvement of education, training, development of students.
A teacher can be called a teacher who fully realizes that he is responsible to society, achieves high results in his practice, optimally using professional tools. He is distinguished by an individual style of activity, due to which his creative potential is fully realized.
Pedagogical excellence consists of:
1. The set of professional knowledge of the teacher.
2. Pedagogical technology.
3. The humanistic characteristics of the personality of the teacher.
Pedagogical excellence as professional knowledge
According to Makarenko, students can forgive their teacher a lot - dryness, severity, and pickiness, but they will never put up with his poor knowledge of the subject. The master teacher must know the subject of his teaching to perfection, and not only what is written in the textbooks and what he learned at one time at the university. He must constantly improve his qualifications, be aware of everything that may be interesting to students and what they can ask him about.
Pedagogical mastery as a pedagogical technique
Under the pedagogical technique is meant the totality of those methods, skills and techniques of educational work that are used to ensure that the goal of the activity is achieved most fully. In particular, this includes pedagogical abilities, the ability to manage others and oneself, the ability to collaborate and establish contact.
Pedagogical skill as a characteristic of personality
The humanistic characteristic is an integral element of pedagogical mastery and represents a focus on the personality of the student, the statement in his worldview of spiritual values, moral forms of relationships and behavior. This is part of the ideology of the teacher.
In turn, the humanistic orientation is focused on:
1. Himself - so that students see in the teacher a real, qualified, demanding person.
2. Means of influence (events, training programs, ways of presenting material).
3. The student and his adaptation in a specific social group (for example, in a school class).
The humanistic strategy of the teacher is to achieve the main goal of his activity, aimed at helping to develop a full-fledged, educated, competent person (taking into account, of course, not only the needs of modern society, but also the personal needs of the pupil). Only if there is a sense of responsibility, awareness of one’s goals and true love for children, the formation of professional teaching skills is possible.
The master teacher has the ability to see, even in small matters, not great, but large and important tasks. The humanistic orientation of his activities allows us to evaluate work not only directly, but also indirectly - the teacher must see and take into account the positive changes in the personality of each of his students that he managed to achieve as a competent, competent and talented organizer of the educational process.
The pedagogical mastery of a teacher is the peak that is not achieved immediately and by no means by all. Some spend years of their practice on this, while others remain mediocre teachers until the end of their careers (if only because they simply do not strive for anything more). It should be remembered that skill, unlike talent and a gift, is never innate - in order to achieve it, you need to work long and hard on yourself, on your teaching technique, while not forgetting to constantly improve your knowledge of the taught subject, even if it’s such a conservative like math. If you can’t find the words to challenge the student’s point of view, but just tell him that he’s wrong, then which of you is a master?