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Emotional Competencies
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Curriculum Competencies
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Environmental Competencies
Research Competencies include the competencies of research methods
and
techniques, designing and carrying out research in teachers’ fields.
They support
collaboration with colleagues and other specialists or people
who are interested in
curriculum studies and education. Research competencies are influential for teachers
in following the developments in
their fields and developing themselves based on these
developments.
Besides, the research competencies of teachers are of great importance
for
students in gaining the scientific thinking and scientific process skills. The
research
competencies help to improve all of the teachers’ competencies
and also support
research-based teacher education that is a new approach
in teacher education. [p. 36-
37, 7]
Scientific research competence today is important for many professions and
activities: it is necessary not only to creatively apply the obtained knowledge but also
to create new knowledge, to carry out the applied researches. Therefore, during the
bachelor studies already, the student has to obtain scientific research competence.
Scientific research activity becomes the teacher’s educational practice realia as well,
allowing the analysis of concrete learning situations, forming the assumptions to think
over one’s actions, pedagogical interaction with pupils, allowing making sure of the
effectiveness of the applied teaching methods. Constantly changing pedagogue’s
activity requires research activity competences. Teacher-researcher - is constantly
thinking over his activity, organizing pedagogical activity researches, applying various
research methods, creatively applying the research results. [1]
In the content of research competence there are the following competencies:
1) Competencies in acquiring knowledge: the ability to systematize, analyse
scientific information; highlight the main structural elements of the scientific
knowledge system in the text (facts, concepts, laws, theories and methods of scientific
research and applicative knowledge); to apply plans of generalized character
(algorithms) in the process of self-study of the basic structural elements of the scientific
knowledge system; transfer information from one form to another (e.g., from a text to
a scheme); compare and contrast the presentation of the same questions in different
sources; express their opinions; create a relationship of knowledge and ensure its
systematization; be able to use cognitive abilities in solving scientific problems at the
analytically-synthetic level; master the mass media and multimedia technologies, e-
mail, Internet technologies to solve scientific problems; be fluent in foreign languages;
have competencies in the area of humanities and social sciences (have knowledge and
skills in humanities), be willing to continuously update the knowledge and skills;
2) Competencies in anticipation of the results, in hypothesizing: have challenging
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