Open AccessRequirements to the Professional Competence of English Language Teachers in Belgium
Author(s) -
Yevheniya Protsko
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
porìvnâlʹna profesìjna pedagogìka/comparative professional pedagogy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-9518
pISSN - 2308-4081
DOI - 10.2478/rpp-2014-0039
Subject(s) - vocational education , competence (human resources) , pedagogy , foreign language , psychology , professional development , communicative competence , teacher education , mathematics education , social psychology
The concept of a teacher competence in the works of national and foreign scholars has been investigated in the article. The author describes the standards for English teachers in Belgium that is considered to be an inalienable element of the European education. The qualified training of the teachers is denoted as pedagogical, didactic and methodical knowledge mastering and obtaining research and practical skills. In Belgium vocational education in general and teacher training in particular are described as training of an educational specialist with vocational, organizational, communicative skills and high level of the competence