The self-education of primary school teachers is one of the most important elements of his professional activity. After all, the development of a teacher should not stop with graduation and the subsequent start of work. Time does not stand still, every year curricula and programs change, technologies change. Yes, and today's children and adolescents themselves are not at all like their peers twenty years ago, they require a special approach.
You need a plan
As a rule, to develop professional knowledge and skills, teachers use an annual plan that regulates self-education. Primary school teachers must not forget that in addition to the need to constantly keep up with the times and changing the educational audience, it is also necessary to continuously improve their own qualifications. In this matter, constant self-development will help you. The self-education of primary school teachers in this aspect is a strict order of certain systematic tasks that are aimed at deepening the psychological skills of communication, deepening the teacher’s professional knowledge, and simply personal development.
Stages, features and forms of the plan of self-education
The plan (as a document) assumes that the topic of self-education of the elementary school teacher will be indicated, which he is going to develop and
surname of the curator who supervises the work process. Actually, the most important part of such a plan will be the development of actions and activities that are evenly distributed throughout the academic year, as well as aimed at developing topics and advanced training.
Event types
Primary school teacher self-education involves three main categories of such events:
- Continuing education courses to which management directs employees usually every five years.
- The study of specialized professional literature, the development of innovative techniques in communication with pupils and curricula, the analysis of relationships in children's groups, the writing of various scientific reports and creative works throughout the year.
- And finally, the teacher’s constant participation in methodological events, various conferences, speaking to colleagues with their own reports.
Primary school teacher self-education goal
Any plan of this type of work should contain specific goals and objectives. The development of a teacher whose activities are directly related to groups of pupils of primary school age, of course, has characteristic features. And the main one is the need for in-depth study of the children's psyche, early development techniques. In addition, primary school teachers need to pay increased attention to life safety and health protection (instead of the subject knowledge that characterizes high school teachers). In addition, it will be useful to include in the plan the development of skills such as self-motivation, the development of reflection, time planning, and so on.