Degree: BACHELOR
Duration: 4 years (8 semesters)
ECTS: 240
Fields of study: Education, Educational Systems, Educational Programmes, History
Languages of instruction: Russian, English (on request)

DESCRIPTION

The programme’s mission is to help students of teacher education form universal, general professional and professional competences, which will allow them to successfully function in the modern labour market as a teacher of history and social studies, or as a teacher of supplementary education. As a result of training, in accordance with the requirements of employers, a bachelor should possess fundamental knowledge of history and special historical disciplines and meet the modern requirements for teachers’ activities in designing and implementing of the educational process, as well as in setting and implementing various types of educational work.

AIMS

training activity:
•    studying students’ abilities, needs, and achievement in the field of education;
•    conducting training and education in accordance with the requirements of educational standards;
•    applying technologies appropriate to the age characteristics of students and reflecting the specifics of the subject area;
•    setting and solving professional tasks in the field of education and science;
•    applying research methods to professional activities;
•    collecting, analysing, systemising, and using information on current issues in education and science;
•    ensuring life and health protection for students during the educational process.

design activity:
•    designing the content of educational programmes and modern training technologies, taking into account the peculiarities of the educational process, the objectives of education, and personal development through educational subjects;
•    designing individual routes of training, educating and developing students;
•    designing an individual educational route and a vocational career.

methodological activity:
•    ensuring methodological support to achieve individual, subject, and meta-subject learning outcomes, while taking into account students’ individual characteristics;
•    creating conditions fostering students’ interest in learning world and national culture and geography, as well as life safety, by engaging them in various activities (individual, group, research, project, communication, etc.);
•    designing the subject environment for studying subjects in schools, as well as specialised courses in educational organisations of basic and secondary general education.

cultural and educational activity:
•    studying and shaping the needs of children and adults for cultural and educational activities;
•    organising a cultural and educational environment;
•    developing and implementing cultural and educational programmes for various social groups.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of the course the student should be able to:
•    conduct professional activities in accordance with professional ethics and regulatory legal acts in the field of education;
•    participate in the development of basic and supplementary educational programmes, develop their separate elements, including with the use of information and communications technology;
•    organise joint and individual learning and educational activities for students, including those with special educational needs, in accordance with the requirements of federal state educational standards;
•    implement moral education for students based on basic national values;
•    implement control and assessment of students’ educational outcomes, identify and correct learning difficulties;
•    apply psychological and training technologies in professional activities necessary for individualisation of learning, development and education, including for those with special educational needs;
•    interact with the participants of educational relationships within the implementation of educational programmes;
•    implement training activities based on specialised scientific knowledge;
•    comprehend the operational principles of modern information technology and apply them for solving professional activity tasks;
•    implement educational programmes at various levels in accordance with modern methods and technologies, including information technology, in order to ensure the quality of the educational process.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

The graduate is able to carry out pedagogical activities in the design and implementation of the educational process in educational institutions of basic general, secondary general, secondary vocational, and supplementary vocational education in the field of history.