The practical aspect of teacher education as a guarantee of the quality of the educational process

Sylwia Rapacka-Wojtala

Uniwersytet Łódzki

Abstract

Development of a high-quality educational process has long been the main aim of the whole educational system. When talking about the educational system, we mostly refer to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th stages of education, the organisers, moderators and evaluators of which are teachers using their knowledge and experience, and the subjects of which – regardless of the educational stage – are students. Consequently, the whole educational system should focus on students, their needs and abilities, while teachers should be well-prepared to their roles, as the success of the process of knowledge acquisition by students depends on them. This is why teachers’ subject-matter knowledge and their ability to deliver it gained during their professional education guarantee good organisation of the educational process and, as a consequence, its quality. Similarly to the process of foreign language teaching, where the most important skills are related to the practical application of lexical and grammatical knowledge in communication, the education of foreign language teachers should focus on the development of the skill to apply in practice their knowledge of psycho-pedagogy, didactics and foreign language teaching methodology within individual educational activities. Future teachers, when completing subsequent stage of their professional education, should demonstrate not only a high level of theoretical knowledge but also – or perhaps mostly – well-developed skills of future teachers-educators.

Keywords:

knowledge, professional education, well-developed skills of future teachers- -educators, practice, teaching competence