Quality assurance connecting to the teacher's training in the natural sciences

Károly Micskei

Teacher training faculties at the University of Debrecen

Faculty of • Arts• Natural Sciences – need special requirements?

• Matematics and Informatics• Child and Adult Education• Music• Agronomy• Engineering

Competence of the teacher training college

• „logistical centre” of teacher training• administers the training of teachers in the institution,• determination the conditions for teacher training

courses for teachers (psychological, pedagogical, methodological – need special conditions for natural sciences!),

• development the organizational and management policy for teacher training

Teacher Training Group

of teaching practice for students

• organize,• register • confirm • assess

Organization of teacher’s training in the natural sciences

• Teacher Training Groups: physics, chemistry, biology, geography

• Supervising teachers – at the departmets.

• Mentors – at the schools.

• Teacher Training School - laboratories, equipments, sequirity.

Supervising teachers at the departments

• professional and academic representative• expert in teacher training• hold contacts with the representatives of the

disciplines and schools• collaborator of the mentor teachers• help practical work of future teacher by technically

and methodologically

Mentorsoversee all kinds of school activities of teacher trainees

Teacher training school•is maintained by the university•it is a service unit•it support the university's educational and research activities

independent teaching practice under the guide of a mentor teacher in a school

general practice (A/1) 45 lessonspractice of teaching (A/2) 45 lessonsindividual practice (60 lessons)

School practice

General practice (A/1) 45 lessonsallows students to get acquainted • with everyday duties of the teaching profession,• the general condition of school operation,• its pedagogical program

Practice of teaching (A/2) 45 lessons• separated teaching work• observe and analyze teaching work of teacher

trainees • close with a final obsereved lesson

Individual „regional” practice (60 lessons)

• teacher trainees join the continuous activity of a school

• trainees have the right to choose their place of practice

• institution of public education that operates under average conditions

Portfolio

introduces the student their teacher professional development

Teacher training thesis

Teacher's diploma for two subjects