Introduction into the course of “methodology of teaching special subjects”

The world trend of development of educational system or modern postulates of a new educational paradigm are:

From ―good education for all life to a long-life learning‖

2. From obedience to initiative.
3. From knowledge to competencies.

3. Principles of quality management

• Function of management and monitoring has a sequent character as cause and effect links.
• Objectives of management:
• 1) determination of management strategies; 2) decision-making; 3) carry out the accepted decisions. Management of a system begins with determination of a goal and objectives; a structure of interrelated elements design; outline algorithm of actions and outcomes of these actions; direct and back links (input and output). 19 There are ISO quality management principles (See: www. iso. org/iso/qmp_2012. pdf) which mean a set of fundamental beliefs, norms, rules and values that are accepted as true and can be used as a basis for quality management‖ (See Figure 1).

Figure 1. ISO Quality Management Principles

Customer focus
Leader
involving of people
Prosess
System approach to
It is obvious that where positive dynamics in teaching are absent and results are systematically lower than described in the standards 21 (norms), the educational system needs modernization. When applied to the modern language training process, monitoring fulfils various objectives. They are:

• Monitoring the educational activity of learners and teachers. The process of education is the process of interaction between a teacher and students, so a teacher‘s and learners‘ activity needs retracing.
• 2. Monitoring the objectiveness and reliability of assessment techniques of learners‘ achievements. The assessment should be relevant to the type of a task in which learners are engaged. Assessment techniques should be designed according to the language level designated in the curriculum. Besides, the conditions of study and techniques used to evaluate language skills should also be monitored.
• 3. Determining and analyzing the dynamic progress and regress in learners‘ achievements. It is important for learners to know where progress is being made and the criteria upon which their performance is being judged. The progress and shortcomings of the language performance are necessary to be followed

4. Creating a competitive environment for teachers‘ and learners‘ creative and productive activity. Students and teachers can be encouraged to monitor each other‘s performances. Peer assessment is one of the techniques which motivates and improves the monitoring capacity. Another tool which creates competitiveness among teachers and students is testing.
5. Analyzing the persistent assessment of teaching and learning processes. The analysis of the results of assessments gives an opportunity to inform stakeholders about efficiency of teaching materials and assessment tools. 6. Predicting the perspectives of educational system development. We can predict the challenges and solve them in time to achieve progress via analysis of educational system and discussion of it with stakeholders. The quality of modern language teacher training is assessed through a system of internal and external evaluations (See Table 1).