Intensification of teacher training within a professional retraining programme


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There is a contradiction between the need to purposefully develop the teachers’ readiness for innovation in the course of their academic activity and insufficient attention to this problem when creating and implementing professional retraining programs for the teaching staff. There are a number of projects that bring together scientists in the field of organizing the training and retraining of teachers of engineering universities. One of them is the Erasmus+ project “Pedagogical training of engineering teachers (ENTER)”. The purpose of this study is to test the module “Enhancement of Learning Interactivity” as a part of the program “Innovative Pedagogy for Teachers of Engineering Universities” and to intensify student learning. When designing the module “Enhancement of Learning Interactivity”, we took into account the recommendations of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP), the experience of the Estonian Center for Engineering Pedagogy, which focuses on retraining teachers, as well as modern innovative teaching methods, such as: interactive lectures, group work, discussions, design portfolio, case study, etc. In the course of the experiment the researchers used teaching modeling methodology, pedagogical experiment, and participant observation. The results of the experiment have shown that the level of the final works of the respondents from the experimental group is higher compared to those from the control group: more teachers coped with the final tasks of the module and got better understanding of the teaching materials. The authors have come to the conclusion that the most effective organizational teaching forms are interactive lectures, group work, discussion; the recommended methods are portfolio design, case-study, peer-instruction, presentations, feedback, analysis of one’s own course, metacognitive strategies, pauses for reflection; the recommended visualization tools are mind-maps, concept maps of literature reviews, and thesaurus maps.

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Tiia Ruutmann

Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn

Email: tiia.ruutmann@taltech.ee
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8944-0149

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD in Pedagogy), assistant professor at the Institute of Mechanics and Industrial Engineering; Head of the Estonian Center for Engineering Pedagogy; Director of the Education Development Center of the Faculty of Engineering

Estonia

Guzel Rafaelevna Khusainova

Kazan National Research Technological University, Kazan

Author for correspondence.
Email: english4@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2509-5961

PhD (Pedagogy), Associate Professor, assistant professor of Chair “Foreign Languages in Professional Communication”

Russian Federation

Mansur Floridovitch Galikhanov

Kazan National Research Technological University, Kazan

Email: mgalikhanov@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5647-1854

Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), professor of Chair “Technology of Processing of Polymers and Composite Materials”, Director of the Institute of Additional Professional Education

Russian Federation

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