Yearbook of the Faculty of Education

8-31

Authors: Mariya Slavova Teneva

The study presents the tendencies in the preparation and qualification of the modern Bulgarian teacher. The idea of a competent approach in the process of professional training of the pedagogical specialists in the higher school is revealed. An emphasis has been put on synchronizing the training of Bulgarian teachers with common European documents concerning the realization of the ideas for permanent training, the formation of key competences, training aimed at realizing smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The regulations for acquiring the professional qualification “teacher” after the democratic changes in Bulgaria are analyzed. An analysis of the last ordinance regulating the status and professional development of teachers, directors and other pedagogical specialists is made.

46-56

Authors: Tzveta Apostolova Delcheva

The article analyzes the organization of the seminar classes in the discipline “History of Pedagogy and Bulgarian Education” at the Faculty of Education, Trakia University, Stara Zagora. It describes the mechanism for the selection of appropriate interactive techniques and methods for the seminar classes, which is required by the changed profile of today’s student, as well as the profile of a group of students in a given specialty. A working model for group work in “History of Pedagogy and Bulgarian Education” is presented.

67-74

Authors: Rumyana Ilcheva Neminska

The quality of tertiary education is one of the main objectives of the common European space. As an element of quality, the development of innovative teaching methodologies in higher education is perceived. That is why innovative practices, student-centered training and their results remain a priority in the process of higher education. It is precisely this that, in procedural terms, requires higher education to have an adaptive research character, so that teaching methods create the conditions for the development of students’ research skills. This perspective is the core of this report. It outlines the adaptive nature of interactive methods and their research characteristics. In the contemporary reading of interactive learning two main trends are considered - the scientific theoretical enrichment and the content-technological extension of the notion of interactivity. In the theoretical perspective, interactive education in higher education is seen as a pedagogical model that encourages students to be an active part of the learning interaction. In this sense, interactive methods are understood as integrative complexes in which a dialogueoriented research environment for the development of scientific and research potential is constructed. The interactive methodological complex organizes such academic learning environment, which is permanently dynamic, research-focused, creative and effective. The grading of this interactive methodological complex consists in the fact that the students use the methodical supports, but they build their scientific theoretical links so that they mutually develop their cognitive, emotional and other type of potential. In content - technology terms, the concept is explored through action - oriented and interdisciplinary approaches. The methodical interactive complex is also built on simulation-based pedagogical training. It has designed a learning environment in which students can make mistakes, exercise and explore the cognitive space, apply various ideas several times to achieve the most satisfactory and pedagogically acceptable result. The research technology in the methodical interactive learning model is constructed in three stages: community work, assessment reflection and a self-reflection questionnaire. In the three technological stages, the student enters different roles: constructor, evaluator, personal reflection. In each of the stages, the research feature enables influence on a particular element of the model so as to enhance/slow down, postpone/ hurry an action, result or process. The research features of interactive learning relate to self-reflection at several levels: - teaching; - learning; - constructs of pedagogical communication, - assessment/self-assessment. The application of a research interactive learning model enhances the research culture of the students and the level of their personal and professional communication.

89-103

Authors: Zlatka Dimitrova Zhelyazkova

The main objective of modern language learning is to improve the communicative competence of the learners. The striving for enhancing the effectiveness of language learning aims to ensure that each student, besides basic training (acqiusition of the taught vocabulary, correct pronunciation, spelling, etc.), also has access to information, skills to select, systemize, use and understand its application. The use of communicative strategies in studying the new language puts learners in an active position, encourages them to engage in productive learning, to form cognitive, communicative and social skills, and above all to be active participants in the process od learning which is characterized mainly by interaction, collaboration and use of a variety of techniques to facilitate the perception and acquisition of the studied content. The modern teacher faces the necessity to constantly seek new modern and innovative training and teaching methods which are interesting and meet the linguistic needs of the learners, to provide them with the conditions and equip them with the means for independence and advancement, achieved on the basis of already acquired knowledge and learning strategies.

116-135

Authors: Marian Georgiev Delchev

The complexity of the components of the complex cartographic literacy and subject-oriented methodological professional competence, as well as the process of their formation, requires the use of specific diagnostic tools and parametric and nonparametric methods and techniques for quantitative and qualitative analysis. The subject of this paper is the model of the processing of data from the study, the main results found during the experimental work and their statistical and qualitative analysis.