The role of play at the lesson

1. Children grow, learn and even investigate the world through play. Play is the basis for discovery, reasoning and thinking. When children are given the freedom to experiment, to make mistakes and then to learn from these mistakes, they are developing skills that will stay with them for life.

2. Children do not differentiate between play, learning and work. Children are playful by nature. They love to play because play is an activity in which any child is open to express his points of view, ideas and thoughts,

3. It is important to notice that games are necessary not just for junior pupils; in senior forms the elements of play must be included into the educating process. So games vary accordingly to the age of children.

1. Определите, какое утверждение соответствует содержанию текста:

Укажите не менее двух вариантов ответа

□ Play allows children to express their points of view, ideas, and thoughts more freely.

□ Through play children get necessary living and academic experience.

□ Children learn their environment easier in the process of play.

□ Play is primarily important for small children.

2. Завершите утверждение согласно содержанию текста:

Play influences children’s further life as …

Укажите не менее двух вариантов ответа

□ role-play develops common behaviour patterns peculiar to adults

□ while playing children acquire and develop useful skills that are in use all their life

□ it promotes them to realize the right behaviour

□ it is a trouble-free way of developing skills that will stay with them for life

3. Ответьте на вопрос:

Why is it possible to cultivate children’s skills through play?

o Through play children acquire knowledge much better as play is the basis for their discovery, reasoning and thinking.

o While play children share their opinions and ideas without difficulty.

o Feeling relaxed and being not afraid of making mistakes is the way of effective children’s skills development.

o While play children allow to be directed by teachers developing their skills.

4. Определите основную идею текста:

o Children choose play as their favourite activity because it is the most common and easy way of their self-expression and experience acquisition.

o Play is the only way for children of any age and background to explore their environments as they can make mistakes without being afraid of being punished for this.

o Play promotes the acquisition of necessary experience and skills by children setting them free to express their ideas and points of view and learn from their own mistakes.

o Play is the kind of educational activity which should be practiced at any school age but being of different forms.

Кейс-задача 15

TEACHING

1. Good teaching is not a matter of techniques or methods, for, as curriculum is not education, so method is not teaching. Research indicates that good teachers cannot be differentiated on the basis of «teaching methods». The method is inseparable from the person of the teacher; in fact, the person of the teacher is more important than the method.

2. The good teacher is not an instructor, who simply provides information, facts and knowledge but a facilitator of learning for the student. Good teachers are not those who are simply experts in subject matter, or experts in teaching methods, or curriculum experts, or who utilize the most resources, such as audiovisual aids.

3. The best teacher is one who, through establishing a personal relationship, frees the student to learn. Learning can only take place if the student and the teacher can create the conditions for learning. The atmosphere created by a good interpersonal relationship is the major condition for learning.

1. Определите, какое утверждение соответствует содержанию текста:

Укажите не менее двух вариантов ответа

□ Undoubtedly the choice of good teaching methods determines good teaching.

□ Good interpersonal relationship of a teacher with his students positively influences the students' learning.

□ A teacher should be a facilitator of knowledge through utilizing audiovisual aids.

□ Learning depends on good interpersonal relationship of a teacher with his students.

2. Завершите утверждение согласно содержанию текста:

A good teacher is a facilitator of knowledge …

Укажите не менее двух вариантов ответа

□ as he is not the one who perfectly knows his subject matter, teaching methods or his curriculum

□ as he is able to create such atmosphere where his knowledge would be easily acquired by the learners

□ for his students through establishing good interpersonal relationship with them

□ because it is just to him to teach the students properly according to the curriculum

3. Ответьте на вопрос:

Why does the person of a teacher prevail over the teaching methods?

o Research indicates that good teachers cannot be differentiated on the basis of «teaching methods».

o It is the teacher who is able to create the conditions for learning through establishing good interpersonal relationships.

o Methods are less important as they are not teaching.

o Good teachers are not those who are simply experts in teaching methods.

4. Определите основную идею текста:

o A good teacher tries to use such teaching methods that would promote his students’ learning.

o Good teaching should take into consideration teaching methods as well as the personality of a teacher.

o Good teachers are those who do their best to establish good interpersonal relationships with his students.

o Establishing good interpersonal relationships with his students a teacher promotes their learning.

Кейс-задача 16

AUTODIDACTICISM

1. Auto didacticism is self-directed learning that is related to but different from informal learning. In a sense, auto didacticism is “learning on your own” or “by yourself”, and an autodidact is a self-teacher. Auto didacticism is contemplative, absorptive process. Some autodidacts spend a great deal of time reviewing the resources of libraries and educational websites.

2. One may become an autodidact at nearly any point in one’s life. While some may have been informed in a conventional manner in a particular field, they may choose to inform themselves in other, often unrelated areas. Many notable contributions have been made by autodidacts.

3. Auto didacticism is only one facet of learning, & is usually, but not necessarily, complemented by learning in formal & informal spaces: from classrooms to other social settings. Many autodidacts seek instruction & guidance from experts, friends, teachers, parents, siblings and community. Inquiry into auto didacticism has implications for learning theory, educational research, educational philosophy & educational psychology.

1. Содержанию текста соответствует утверждения:

□ Autodidacts use the Internet as the main source of knowledge

□ Auto didacticism has no common features with informal learning

□ Autodidacts may occur out of other learning spaces

□ Autodidacts can occur alongside with other learning spaces.

2. Завершите утверждение согласно содержанию текста:

Autodidacts are diligent people as…

□ they avoid being informed in a conventional manner

□ they prefer to learn on their own

□ their learning style implies great concentration in their studies

□ they have to search for necessary information themselves

3. Ответьте на вопрос:

Is striving for auto didacticism an innate inclination?

o No, people may turn into autodidacts at any time

o Yes, autodidacts need to have certain character features

o Yes, people may benefit a lot from being …

o No, people can combine different learning styles.

4. Основной идеей текста является:

o Autodidacts organize their learning process by themselves but may benefit from learning in other learning spaces.

o Auto didacticism is only one facet of learning, & is usually, but not necessarily.

o One may become an autodidact at certain point in one’s life.

o Autodidacts spend a great deal of time reviewing the resources of libraries and educational websites.

Кейс-задача 17

QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

 

1. Quality of higher education has stopped being only educational problem but has become one of the main social and economic aspects, which determine the position of the country on the global arena. The level of specialists’ education, their professional competencies as well as creative activity has been acquiring a special priority. The country where there is the better level of specialists’ education will win the competition in the sphere of technique and the economic competition at the global market as well.

2. Information society gave birth to knowledge-based economy, which demands higher level of basic skills and a new content of the professional activity. The official colleges and universities will be only one of the majorities of different sources of information. Internet resources, different models of distant education and other technologies about which we don’t even suspect now will be used in providing a person with valuable information.

3. The new paradigm of education leads to changes in pedagogical conscience. For hundreds of years teachers strived to supply young generations with a scope of knowledge but nowadays they try to develop in them a constant desire in modernizing knowledge, improvement professional skills by means of self-education and self-perfection.

4. Traditional approaches to determining quality of education have become out-dated. Modern society can’t be satisfied with transition of the results of humanity’s historical development in a fixed form. The main aim of higher education is to provide a priority of spiritual personality’s development over its learning of acquired social experience. This idea and the principles of creation of the united educational area became the cornerstones of such international educational documents as UNESCO Reform and Development of Higher Education, European Commission White Paper “Teaching and learning: towards the learning society”, documents of Bologna Agreement and others.

 

1. Определите, является ли утверждение:

It’s more important for modern students to get more and more information than to develop skills of self-education.

o истинным

o ложным

o в тексте нет информации

2. Определите, является ли утверждение:

Nowadays the world community needs new criteria to define the quality of higher education.

o истинным

o ложным

o в тексте нет информации

3. Определите, является ли утверждение:

Political reforms lead to the changes in relations between the additional and alternative education.

o истинным

o ложным

o в тексте нет информации

4. Определите, является ли утверждение:

The country wins its position on the world market due to the quality of higher education.

o истинным

o ложным

o в тексте нет информации

5. Какой части текста соответствует следующая информация:

Modern education is tightly connected with the development of the information technologies.

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6. Какой части текста соответствует следующая информация:

The personal self-development has priority over the acquiring of the social experience in the modern world.

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7. Ответьте на вопрос:

What is the main aim of teaching in the 21^st century?

o To provide information to the students using modern technologies.

o To introduce information technologies into the process of education.

o To teach the students get useful information using various sources.

o To influence the personality of the students and make them change faster.

8. Определите идею текста:

o Information technologies make the system of higher education more complicated.

o Modern society provides new standards to the development of higher education.

o Traditional approaches to modernizing higher education are based on the necessity of the personal growth of the modern specialists.

o Higher education has got extra priority in the sphere of economics.

Кейс-задача 18

TEACHING METHODS

 

1. A teacher is someone acknowledged as a guide or helper in processes of learning. A teacher’s role may vary between cultures. Academic subjects are emphasized in many societies, but a teacher’s duties may include instruction in craftsmanship or vocational training, spirituality, civics, community roles, or life skills. In modern schools and most contemporary occidental societies, where scientific pedagogy is practiced, the teacher is defined as a specialized profession on the same level as many other professions.

2. The objective is typically a course of study, lesson plan, or a practical skill, including learning and thinking skills. The different ways to teach are often referred to as the teacher’s pedagogy. When deciding what teaching method to use, a teacher will need to consider students’ background knowledge, environment, and their learning objectives. A teacher may follow standardized curricula as determined by the relevant authority. The teacher may interact with students of different ages, from infants to adults, students with different abilities and students with learning disabilities.

3. Teaching may be carried out informally, within the family or the wider community. Formal teaching may be carried out by paid professionals. Such professionals enjoy a status in some societies on a par with physicians, lawyers, engineers and accountants.

4. A teacher’s professional duties may extend beyond formal teaching. Outside of the classroom teachers may accompany students on field hips, supervise study halls, help with the organization of school functions, and serve as supervisors for extracurricular activities. In some education systems, teachers may have responsibility for student discipline. Around the world teachers are often required to obtain specialized education and professional licensure. The teaching profession is regarded for having a body of specialized professional knowledge, codes of ethics and internal monitoring.

 

1. Определите, является ли утверждение:

A teacher has only formal professional duties in teaching.

o истинным

o ложным

o в тексте нет информации

2. Определите, является ли утверждение:

A teacher may be a person who has a high level of skills.

o истинным

o ложным

o в тексте нет информации

3. Определите, является ли утверждение:

A teacher’s profession is supposed to lead and assist in the process of studying.

o истинным

o ложным

o в тексте нет информации

4. Определите, является ли утверждение:

The standard program must be determined by the teacher.

o истинным

o ложным

o в тексте нет информации

5. Какой части текста соответствует следующая информация:

Teachers’ functions may be beyond their educative activity.

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6. Какой части текста соответствует следующая информация:

Teachers’ functions include different spheres of vital activity.

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7. Ответьте на вопрос:

What is the main duty of teachers?

o To be a facilitator and coordinator in the educational process.

o To organize student’s activity beyond learning.

o To help parents to bring up their children.

o To be only a mentor in the process of learning.

8. Определите идею текста:

o A teacher is someone whose activity is to bring up different students from infants to adults.

o A teacher is someone whose activity is aimed at teaching in classes.

o The different ways of teaching are referred to as the teacher’s pedagogy.

o Teaching may be carried out both formally and informally.

 

Кейс-задача 19