PEDAGOGICAL PORTRAIT OF A KAZAKH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR IN A NEW DIGITAL REALITY

Abstract

The criterion for the quality of professional and pedagogical training is the professional competence of the instructor, which most fully reflects the entire range of requirements imposed by society and the state on a specialist of the 21st century. The modern instructor is a humanist with positive and flexible thinking. They are called to "sow the reasonable, good, eternal", as well as hundreds of years ago, since "the well-being of the whole people depends on the right education" (D. Locke).

    This article aims to develop a portrait of a Kazakh language instructor in the digital environment, the carrier of digital competencies of an instructor-practitioner of the 21st century, based on a survey. Quantitative (questionnaire) and qualitative (survey, interview) methods were used during the empirical study. The study involved 21 instructors from the Department of the Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies. The conducted empirical study made it possible to supplement the instructor’s professiogram profile with practice-oriented skills during the pandemic.  The novelty of the presented research lies in developing a portrait of an instructor in a digital educational environment, updated by the transition to online learning in the pandemic and after.

    Although distance education is a well-established system in the education system of Kazakhstan, the situation with COVID-19 has created serious challenges for online learning and problems that need to be addressed urgently. Kazakh language instructors redesigned, reconsidered, and replanned the educational environment in an online format. As a result, the portrait of an instructor of the digital environment as a carrier of ICT competence, actively using online learning formats in the difficult conditions of a pandemic, was enriched. Now, one can use the online professional competence of an instructor in blended learning.