Course: Teacher's personal development

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Course title Teacher's personal development
Course code KPV/PZOSV
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Nišponská Magda, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Bosáková Veronika, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Personal growth and development of teachers for primary schools. Specific characteristics of teachers at primary schools. Challenges of teaching practice in primary education with regard to the personality profile of teachers. 2. Deeper understanding of other people's experiences, understanding the causes of their emotional experiences, their intentionality, the ability to listen empathically, mirror and support another person, the ability to cooperate. 3. Deeper understanding of oneself, one's own experiences, increasing the ability to self-reflectobserving one's own experiences with distance, the ability to calm oneself in difficult and stressful situations, authentically and sensitively sharing one's own opinions and attitudes. 4. Developing positive virtues that enable maintaining quality and satisfying relationships (acceptance, gratitude, lovingness). 5. Awareness of healthy boundaries (both your own and those of others), healthy self-assertion and assertiveness, respect for differences, the art of saying no, reflection on a healthy degree of personal responsibility for the consequences of your own actions, thoughts, and feelings. 6. Resilience - reflection on one's own coping with difficult life situations. Practicing positive coping strategies. The demands of the teaching profession in difficult life situations - a professional and humane approach in stressful situations in which pupils and students find themselves. 7. Reflection on one's approach to and care for one's own mental health, the consequences of an unbalanced lifestyle (between rest and activity, time management, unhealthy diet, lack of sleep) on mental well-being and growth. 8. Spirituality - the importance of spiritual transcendence in the life of a student.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Active metods (simulation, situational contingency methods, drama,acting, namagerial acting ), Practicum
Learning outcomes
The aim of the practically oriented course is to support the student's personal growth according to the principles of a humanistic "student-centered" approach. The course is conceived as a self-experiential, non-therapeutically oriented training in which students have the opportunity to train the ability to reflect, self-reflection through dramatization in model situations using the principles of mentalizing communication created for the needs of educators. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to better reflect on their own experiences, including strengths and weaknesses in the area of personal and social competencies relevant to the educator, through deepened self-knowledge. They will be able to set realistic goals for their own growth and achieve them for the benefit and flourishing of personal and professional interpersonal relationships.
Theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the field.
Prerequisites
General orientation in the subject.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
oral colloquium
Recommended literature
  • AINSWORTH, F., SELIGMAN, M. The hope circuit. A psychologist?s journey from helplessness to optimism. Sydney: Penguin Random, 2018. ISBN 1610398734.
  • BOUKALOVÁ, H., CERHA, O., SEDLÁČEK, M., ŠÍROVÁ, E. Psychologie komunikace. Praha: Grada, 2023. ISBN 978-80-271-1388-0.
  • KŘIVOHLAVÝ, J. Pozitivní psychologie. Praha: Portál, 2015. ISBN 978-80-262-0978-2.
  • NIŠPONSKÁ, M. Význam mentalizace pro osobnostní růst pedagoga. Liberec: TUL, 2023. ISBN 978-80-7494-631-8.
  • SLEZÁČKOVÁ, A. Průvodce pozitivní psychologií: nové přístupy, aktuální poznatky, praktické aplikace. Praha: Grada, 2012. ISBN 978-80-247-3507-8.
  • ŠVAMBERK, ŠAUEROVÁ, M.. Techniky osobnostního rozvoje a duševní hygieny učitele.. Grada, 2018. ISBN 978-80-271-0470-3.


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