The news that logic questions will be asked in the teacher recruitment competition this year and will be replaced by questions on pedagogy and methodology has caused a certain echo.
The statement came from Jasarat Valehov, head of the public relations department of the Ministry of Education, Gadin.Net reports.
According to him, "Why should a person with higher (secondary) education have to retake the exam to work as a teacher?", "Why has the content of teacher recruitment exams changed?", "Who prepares questions on methodology?", "Why methodology?" There is no list of literature on "?", "How should candidates prepare for this exam?" and so on. such questions are also asked.
Answering these questions, Valehov said that the teacher recruitment competition is the most popular recruitment campaign in the country, so it is in the spotlight of both those who want to become teachers and the general public. On the other hand, the popularity of such a campaign requires additional mechanisms to select more educated and prepared people from a large number of applicants. In Azerbaijan, as in the rest of the world, the ultimate goal in teacher selection is to ensure the right of students to a better education:
"Answer to Question II - It has been reported before that changes in the content of the MIC exam are related to the integration into the certification exam. On the other hand, it must be accepted that regular changes in the content and format of exams are to keep pace with education reforms. learns, researches, summarizes and gives practical recommendations, but is constantly updated. If teachers learn and apply the basics of pedagogy and methodology, most of the problems in schools today will be easily solved. The aim is to increase the number of questions.
Answer to question III - As for the preparation of questions, we must say that questions are the product of collective labor. Methodist scientists and practical teachers take part in their preparation. The questions included in the database are repeatedly analyzed by various experts, corrected, and analog questions are prepared. Every year new questions are added to the bank and there are thousands of such questions. The questions for the exam session are selected by the computer according to the given team, and there is no human factor at all.
It should be noted that information on which skills these questions will measure - "Assessment framework for teacher recruitment competition" - was posted on the official website of the Ministry of Education on February 28 this year: https://edu.gov.az/en/page/9/18042 It is useful for candidates to get acquainted with this document: the document shows the areas of content (legal literacy, application of the curriculum, pedagogical and psychological theories), the components of the content (facts, concepts, principles: rules, properties, laws; procedures: transformations, algorithms, calculations). , so to speak, the level of difficulty of the questions is adjusted. If you look at the table, you will see that 4 of the 20 questions fall into the categories of "Remembering and Understanding," 12 of "Applying and Analyzing," and 4 of "Assessing and Creating."
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