Dėstytojo edukacinė kompetencija ir jos tobulinimas mokymosi visą gyvenimą kontekste

Abstract

Therefore, the lecturer must be on the ball, refer to results of scientific research, keep in touch with other spheres of studies and scientific tendencies, know possibilities of interdisciplines. An important factor of quality of modern studies is the lecturer's educational competence. The lecturer's educational competence is the expression of scientific and discipline qualification determined by his knowledge, know-how, skills, viewpoints and personal characteristics. This competence manifests in the spheres of didactics, psychology and training process. Today the lecturer's educational competence is improved when the lecturer participates in courses, seminars, conferences organized by his higher educational institution and also by higher educational institutions of foreign countries. But so far there is no system of improving educational competences of lecturers that would correspond to the requirements of the quality of modern studies and also to students' needs, that is why more thorough scientific research must be carried out. Many scientists of different countries analyze concepts of competence and competency in the context of life long learning. World practice shows that analyzing competences of the lecturer of the higher education in situation scientists pay most attention to analysis of scientific competence, but educational competences are analyzed insufficiently. It is stressed in scientific literature that the quality of studies can be improved by perfecting educational competences of the lecturer.