Peculiarities of teachers’ pedagogical activity in higher educational system of the USA

Анотація

The author of this article describes the peculiarities of teachers’ pedagogical
activity at higher agricultural educational establishment of the USA. Special attention is
paid to teachers’ pedagogical skills, their active life position. The author gives detailed
duties characteristics of assistants, lecturers, instructors, associate – professors,
professors. It was mentioned here, that teachers’ work is evaluated by students,
colleagues, by teachers’ participation in seminars, by students’ knowledge, tests
results, university authorities, by people who were taught by those teachers before. It is
very important for the university lecturers to use the research results in the content of
their lectures. It should be noted that the american education system has the position,
which has no analogues in Ukraine - a position of an academic advisor. The author
describes peculiarities and duties of academic advisors, gives an example of factfinding questionnaire on the work of american university advisor. In this paper you are
able to see students’ opinion about ideal university lecturers. The ideas highlighted in
this paper are useful and can be applied to the educational system of Ukraine.
Lecturer of higher educational establishment, pedagogical activity,
american system of higher education, academic advisor, methods and forms of
evaluation, pedagogical skills, knowledge control.