Any teacher wants children to like his subject. In order for students to demonstrate high quality knowledge in the framework of the final certification, the teacher must devote time to their own development.
You can’t come to an educational institution and conduct a lesson without first preparing for it. In this case, it is difficult to count on improving interest in the subject, a deep awareness of the material being studied.
Time for self-development
The methodological day is necessary so that the teacher has the opportunity to prepare for lessons, communicate with colleagues, undergo additional professional training as part of courses, seminars, conferences.
We must not forget that each lesson involves preliminary training, the selection of basic material, tasks, exercises.
It is difficult to fully carry out such training with full employment at school. That is why in many educational organizations teachers are given a methodological day.
How to spend a "day off"
People who are far from the specifics of the teacher’s work are convinced that on vacation, teachers rest with their children. They associate a teaching day with a day off, not realizing that teachers spend it with special literature, raising their intellectual level.
Important aspects
Let's try to understand the essence of the release for a teacher of one working day as part of the school week. The teacher can use the methodical day at school not only to prepare for lessons and extracurricular activities, but also for self-education.
Improving the professionalism of teachers is especially important. After all, the modern school and its students are developing rapidly. If the teacher does not follow the changes taking place in modern society, he will not be able to give his students high-quality and relevant knowledge.
Science holiday
In some schools, it has become a good tradition to hold a teaching day in the form of a seminar. The school administration chooses the day within which methodological work will be carried out in the educational institution. How can I plan work on a single methodological day? Teachers inform in advance of their desire to conduct open lessons or extracurricular activities for colleagues. Based on applications, a schedule of “open lessons” is compiled, which can be visited not only by teachers of the school, but also by colleagues from other educational organizations.
Features of the organization of festivals
All guests are invited to a form in which they can leave their feedback on the extracurricular event or thematic training session attended. In order to fully educate and educate the younger generation, exchange work experience, organize a round table, in which teachers discuss a specific problem, together look for a way to rationally solve it. The methodological topics of the days are offered by the teachers themselves, taking into account the requests and wishes of parents and pupils.
Within the city, for example, one of the schools can become an experimental platform for the introduction of certain methods and techniques of the educational and educational process. In this case, the methodological day will be devoted to these issues.
The scenario of such an event is the deputy director of the educational organization for educational and methodological work, attracting a group of initiative teachers to help.
Payment Features
How is payroll made? Methodical day is paid as well as any other working day. In those schools where the administration cares about the professional level of their teachers, directors try to allocate a “free day” to all teachers, regardless of their load. Such a measure helps to increase the level of teacher training, increase their motivation to work.
Regulation on the methodological day
Some schools are developing (on the basis of a collective agreement) provisions for providing a day for the professional growth of a teacher.
- The goal is to create favorable conditions for improving the pedagogical skills of a modern teacher.
- The right to a teaching day is for full-time teachers at a teacher training institution.
- The day provided is not a teacher's day off.
- The teacher is engaged in self-education, studying normative documents and legislative acts on the issues of training and education of the younger generation.
Within the framework of the methodological day, work is carried out in certain areas:
- mastery of innovative pedagogical techniques and technologies, their adaptation to the conditions of a particular class team;
- analysis of best practices in the taught discipline;
- the study of methodological and scientific literature;
- development of teaching materials on the subject, thinking out extracurricular activities;
- participation in seminars, conferences, webinars.
Conclusion
After the adoption of the professional standard of the teacher, each teacher is obliged to provide the school administration or the head of the methodological association with a plan according to which he will develop his professional qualities and improve pedagogical skills. As a rule, one methodological topic is chosen, on which the teacher will work for 2-3 years, actions are indicated that will contribute to the fulfillment of his tasks. During the school year, the teacher acquaints colleagues with the experience gained at meetings of school, city, district methodological associations, notes the points that have already been achieved.
On the methodological day, the teacher should take an active part in those activities that are held in the educational organization, as well as outside it.
If necessary (in agreement with the teacher), a sick teacher is replaced. The teacher, who is on the methodological bottom, is required to attend open lessons of colleagues in the Moscow Region. If he fulfills the duties of a class teacher, the teacher comes on duty at school.
Monitoring compliance with all the basic rules designed for behavior by teachers of an educational institution on the day it provides for self-education is carried out by the deputy director for educational work and the head of the school methodological subject association.
In some Russian schools, gymnasiums, lyceums, once a half-year (per year), within the framework of the school, methodological decades are held devoted to a specific subject area. According to the Internal Rules of the OS, teachers who are on the “free day” are required to take an active part in those activities that are planned as part of the subject decade.
The allocation in the working week of one day for teachers' self-education is an economically feasible and appropriate measure. Such actions allow us to avoid the psychological and physical overload of school teachers, contribute to the intellectual self-improvement of teachers, their positive attitude towards their professional duties.
Teachers have an excellent opportunity for emotional unloading, studying additional methodological literature, summarizing their professional experience, publishing it in teacher’s magazines and newspapers, developing interesting new lessons and extracurricular activities.