THE ESSENCE OF METHODOLOGICAL COORDINATION WHEN CONSIDERING AN EDUCATIONAL ISSUE AT A SEMINAR

Abstract

The possibilities of such a training session as a seminar in educational institutions of higher education are difficult to overestimate. Nevertheless, pedagogical practice shows that the quality of the seminar depends on understanding its essence, features and the order of the actions that must be performed by both the teacher and the students to achieve the intended educational goal. The authors of the article, using the example of teaching the academic discipline «Criminal Procedural Law (Criminal Procedure)», describe the algorithm for considering the educational issue at the seminar. Based on the purpose of the seminar, they determine the stages of the seminar, such as: formulating the question of the seminar; student performance; setting clarifying questions by students for the speaker; setting questions by the teacher for the speaker and students; student additions; summing up the results of the seminar by the teacher. When considering each stage of the consideration of the educational issue at the seminar, the authors of the article draw the attention of teachers, how each stage is built, “what pitfalls” a teacher can expect in a particular educational situation, and how it is possible to solve the pedagogical and methodological problem that has arisen. The authors of the article also draw attention to the fact that two mandatory components are necessary for holding a seminar: a teacher and students, where the teacher acts as a coordinator of this process.