The modern University teacher – who is he?

What skills should a teacher have now and what features should differ a teacher of the future ? Today participants of the International Summer school together with Professor of Business administration Department of Almaty Management University Akmaral Altalieva were looking for the answers to these questions.

Akmaral Andirovna’s seminar completed very logically the Summer school program of 2016 on the general topic, "Innovative knowledge in modern education system". Representatives of universities defined the work culture and a model of teachers’ competences in the team discussion. In general, the school participants’ vision coincides with trends of the global educational sphere.

A teacher of the future is a gamificator and a coach, a researcher and an engineer of professional skills, a psychologist and a mentor, a leader and authority both in professional and personal life. An interesting opinion was expressed by Sholpan Abzharova, one of the seminar participants, a lecturer of AlmaU IT and GED Department: “A teacher is a person who is a philosopher, in fact. An ordinary person hides philosophy in real life, but teachers must help people to understand themselves. A teacher is God of a human soul on earth. Within the philosophy, the pedagogical culture is aimed at identifying the nature and formation of a student as an integral personality”.

The peculiarity of pedagogical culture is that a teacher must motivate students by his own example. In fact, a teacher forms intellectual, spiritual and creative properties of every student. Sincerity and readiness to empathize help him to do it. One of the main factors of professional success of a teacher is constant desire to grow and develop. Moreover, a teacher can learn not only from colleagues, but also from students of generation Z.

The new generation Z differs by superconfidence, search of mentorship and expectation of tete-a-tete relations, willingness to learn in non-traditional business models, desire to work out the things these young people believe in. That’s why it is necessary to be able to earn the impact on this generation and the teacher’s authority.

What will teachers expect in the future? Perhaps, there will not be a 40-minute lectures, as the increasing pace of life requires the most efficient and thoroughly worked out presentation of important information. It is necessary to introduce experiments and game-techniques into the education program – so it will be much more interesting for students to learn. Nowadays the role of a teacher is changing. A huge amount of information is available to young people by one click of computer keys. Competing with artificial intelligence is useless. Experts note that even undergraduates use the "chewed" abstracts in search engines as a source of information, not directly studying authors and original texts. Therefore, teachers need to stop accumulating information and believe in their "all-knowingness", but only to adapt to these trends.