The ability to learn: from Socrates to digital platforms. The course “Learning to learn” for teachers

Abstract

The future largely depends on teachers, but in the present a lot is also required of them, which implies continuous self-improvement. In this sense, according to Confucius, there are no teachers in the world – only students. The previous article was devoted to the course “Learning to Learn” for schoolchildren, now the reader is presented with a similar course for teachers. The modern requirements for the profession of a teacher, who today is not only a teacher, but also a mentor, content creator, organizer, moderator, expert, designer, tutor, education navigator, etc., are considered, which determines the importance of the problem of individual and corporate professional self-education. At the same time, in general, the basis of the ability to learn should not be the acquisition of ready-made pedagogical tools for life, but the formation of basic competencies and motivation that will allow consciously building an individual educational trajectory throughout life in accordance with the needs for professional and personal development. Taking into account the well-known prototypes, within the framework of children’s segment of SberObrazovanie, a course “Learning to Learn” has been prepared for teachers, the purpose of which is to make learning a lifestyle. The program includes four modules: 1) “How an adult learns to learn”; 2) “Lifelong learning”; 3) “Motivation in learning: how to want to learn”; 4) “Brain potential development”. The main content, examples of educational and test tasks of the course are presented, in which more than 70 thousand teachers took part in the approbation in the 2023/2024 academic year.