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For the uninitiated, a primary school teacher profession may seem as simple and uncomplicated as the multiplication table. In fact, it really so difficult to teach young children basic math and writing as well, even if the writing on the free theme "How I Spent My Summer"? "To this end, a special education and do not need, especially higher!" - many will think and make mistakes .... After all, first graders mentor should know, no less than any teacher of subject. And, most likely, much more ...

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Do you ever wonder what a tremendous burden of responsibility lies with the primary school teachers. Unlike his colleagues, high school students reading chemistry or history, elementary school teacher must not only provide new knowledge, but also to educate: to develop abilities and high moral qualities of students.

"A good teacher leads the lesson, as if all my life know what read just last night," - says the school of wisdom. This joke has some truth, because each business day the teacher is obliged to thoroughly prepare: view lot of books, metodichek and magazines, pick bright examples from life and literature, to find a suitable table and illustration ... But how to properly think through the course of employment, find an individual approach to the slowness and Kolya, and savvy Katyusha, what teaching methods to use - this is not comprehend in a single evening. There can not do without the fundamental knowledge, and not just teaching.

Where to teach? The profession of teacher of junior classes today only give higher specialized schools: teacher training schools, colleges, institutes and universities.

Simplified diagram of "nurturing", allowed a fairly effectively cope with the shortage of human resources in the post-war years (when the country desperately short of qualified personnel, and teaching was enough to end people's teacher training) was a forced measure. Many understood that deal with the education of the younger generation can only be enlisted thorough preparation. Thus, the classic of the national teachers Vasily Sukhomlinsky as director Pavlyshskoy rural school, forced all teachers, under threat of dismissal, to get higher education. Such a constructive approach has not lost its relevance even today.

Where to do? State of professions states for primary school teacher is required associate's degree. It is no wonder that training in this area until recently was considered the prerogative of the educational institutions I-II levels of accreditation (teacher training colleges and colleges). However, specialized departments are increasingly open and in universities. Bachelor degree in "initial training" can now be obtained from the National Pedagogical University named after Mikhail Dragomanov and Kyiv City Pedagogical University named after Boris Grinchenko. By the way, the decision of the Municipality, since 2008 in the last three entered the Kiev Pedagogical College: city; Ushinsky name; and the Main Department of Education and Science of Kyiv City State Administration.

Test ... Unfortunately, the teacher profession is breaking all records for unpopularity. According to the latest sociological research, it ranks third in the ranking of the least prestigious occupations (due to the low salaries in the public sector and the difficult working conditions). But although the main streams of young people flock to the legal and financial faculty, admissions pedagogical universities are in no hurry to lower the bar admission requirements, especially in the state order. Applicants are tested on knowledge of the Ukrainian language and literature as well as history or mathematics.

What to choose? primary school teacher called to be a jack of all trades: the teacher and educator, and artist and musician. In its direct responsibilities - conducting not only reading and math lessons, but lessons of singing, labor training, physical training ... However, some disciplines (foreign language, fine arts or computer science) sometimes commit narrow specialists. But make sure those who not only know their subject, but also know how to teach him to primary school-age children. Each entrant pedagogical high school may choose one of the specializations:

 initial training and practical psychology;

 initial training and foreign language;

 primary education and the fine arts;

 initial training and computer science;

 initial training and sports and organizational activity.

Differentiation allows young professionals to work not only classroom teachers but also the subject teachers in elementary school classrooms or psychological specialists.

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You want to expand the scope of employment? Walk to the magistracy, of course, taking care of pre-bachelor's degree. The title of Master of pedagogy gives the right to hold office:

 an elementary school teacher;

 teacher pedagogy in higher education;

 practical psychologist or subject teacher (foreign language, computer science, fine arts).

Primer

The curricula of the initial training faculties - up to fifty items. Future Makarenko and Sukhomlinsky study psychology and pedagogy, language and literature, history, law, political science and economics, physics and mathematics, chemistry and anatomy, music, painting, and even ... the choreography.

Experts believe, in so saturated is not listed a single extra discipline. The teacher should be fully developed personality - only then he can become a good example for students.

Language and Literature

Competent speech - the card of any specialist, especially the teacher. Who else but the junior school teacher is required to teach children how to properly formulate and express their thoughts (build grammar: phrases, sentences, texts), use bright artistic momentum? Not to mention the most challenging task that falls to mentor kids - learning to read and write. Before working with the first-graders, students gain comprehensive knowledge of the mother tongue: orthoepy, phonetics, lexicology, grammar. As part of the high school program in literature are considered not only the works of Russian and foreign classics, but also the children's fairy tales, poems, novels ... Otherwise, the teacher can bring the children to the educational meaning of the story when he read it in the first class ?!

Maths

"Nothing is so firmly remember the students as the mistakes of their teachers", - agree that the classic right. Especially if we are talking about arithmetic. Wrong answers can seriously impair the authority of the teacher. But the junior classes the program - not only the multiplication table and the simplest tasks on the subject Bull's-flowered. Necessarily considered and equations and inequalities, and some formula. This simple material students must deeply comprehend and analyzed, actually go again. Special attention is paid methods of studying mathematical operations and concepts using visual aids: truism that 2 + 2 = 4 not have to explain to the kids on the fingers, and using bright pictures and informative games.

Psychology

Every teacher should take into account the psychological characteristics of the child's age, the nuances of his temperament and behavior, specificity of attention, memory, thinking ... Forget the teacher that small children can not take dry uninteresting text, monotone voice - and the effectiveness of the training is in doubt! Future teachers shtudiruet general and developmental psychology, learning to form relationships in the children's collective, positive atmosphere in the classroom. But focuses on the study of the principles and methods of activation of thought processes younger students, the development of attentiveness, memory, communication skills, observation - all that helps them to learn from "excellent".

Pedagogy

One of the basic core subjects, not having mastered that you can not properly conduct a lesson, and it is simple to become a teacher. What are the principles, methods, forms of training and education can use the teacher? How effective are these or other methods of updating the knowledge and skills of students? What didactic, educational and developmental objectives for different types of activities (lectures, excursions, control and laboratory work)? Answers to these and many other important issues only gives pedagogy. Interestingly, in the framework of discipline required to study the works of well-known foreign and domestic geniuses of educational thought: Jan Amos Comenius, Constantine Ushinskogo Michael Dragomanov, Anton Makarenko, Basil Sukhomlinsky ... It is because of the recognized classics, students will learn how you can achieve heights in the profession.

Music and choreography

If you still do not know how to dance and play musical instruments, in pedagogical high school quickly to correct this omission, because many primary school teachers have to carry out their own rhythm and singing lessons at school. Received for the student desk of knowledge - much deeper than the study of the seven notes and basic ballet "pa". Future music teachers are forced to not only learn the basics of playing the piano and the accordion (even if you had not taken the tools in the hands), but also come up with their own little music and dance songs!

Practice

Being a true teacher is not possible, even after reading the most intelligent books and perfectly mastered the technique of studying of a noun. To directly join the galaxy of professionals will need (except for genuine love for children) something more - to be able to apply this knowledge in practice. We note at once: not an easy task, so solve it in stages. First, students hone their skills in the walls of the audience, holding fragments of reading or mathematics lessons to classmates. Over time, high school teachers lead them "in the light" - on demonstration lessons the best school teachers, who really have something to learn. And only then freshly experts can try their hand at business, and conducts classes for children (drawing, singing, physical education - is no exception!). Only then given permission to pre-diploma practice - and it is a few weeks of continuous teaching work! Young teachers completely replace class teachers: lessons and conduct parent conferences, assign grades for academic performance and behavior filled diaries and great magazines ...

Ask whether the right after the successful completion of such an important test students call teachers? Far from it. But they are given the opportunity to see if they are properly chosen profession: Whether their souls kids open. And it is no less important than the accumulation of years of diligent study and pedagogical knowledge and skills. After all, as he claimed Sukhomlinsky to become a true teacher and educator, "you need to give your heart to the children."