Degree: BACHELOR
Duration: 5 years (10 semesters)
ECTS: 300
Fields of study: Education, Educational Systems, Educational Programmes, Geography, Life Safety
Languages of instruction: Russian, English (on request)

DESCRIPTION

The programme is aimed at preparing students for teaching activities in the field of geography and life safety, solving professional tasks of pedagogical, design and methodological types, as well as training competent, competitive, humanistic worldview, a stable system of moral and civic values for geography and life safety teachers who are ready for professional mobility, self-improvement, and are able to adapt to a socio-cultural environment in the Russian and international community.

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.

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.

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.

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;
•    implement pedagogical support for students during the achievement of meta-subject, subject, and personal outcomes;
•    design the subject environment of educational programmes and their elements;
•    design individual educational routes for students in taught educational subjects;
•    apply subject knowledge when implementing the educational process;
•    organise students’ activities aimed at developing interest in the educational subject as part of class and extracurricular activities;
•    apply theoretical and practical knowledge for setting and solving research objectives in the subject area and education field.

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 and secondary general education.