Guidance in completing course "Professional cases solution" by undergraduate bachelor’s degree students
The paper analyses the role of course “Professional Cases Solution” as part of psychological and pedagogical training provided to the students of Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education who pursue bachelor’s degree in education. It also presents the experience of guidance in this process. The author gives the example of a seminar aimed at training students’ readiness for solving such a professional case as providing teaching and educating in accordance with the educational standards; she offers a sample of an assessment sheet that contains the criteria of expert reviewing when analyzing the lesson part prepared and presented by a student in class. The author shares the instances of such tasks on students’ independent work as making notes and the map of the lesson, preparing and giving the lesson part or an out-of-class activity in a microgroup, analyzing lesson maps from Internet resources, case solving, preparing for role-plays. The paper also displays the example of a non-standard solution of a case and reveals the difficulties that a teacher may face when making up the criteria and assessing case solutions and students’ participation in role-plays. The article contains the description of a practice the subject of which is “Collaboration with the participants of the educational process” and analyses the results of on-the-spot task that implies students’ abilities for self-presentation and skills in meeting children’s parents.