Some compliance issues and continuity in educational programs of pedagogical universities

The main condition to form the holistic system of lifelong education is ensuring continuity among the levels of secondary (compulsory) and higher education. This article discusses regulations applied for compliance with the principle of continuity in educational programs of secondary and higher pedagogical education. Kazakhstan is involved in updating the content of school education, which aims at ensuring equal access to high-quality secondary education, strengthening the educational component taking into account the spiritual and moral values of the National Patriotic Idea «Mangilik El». A phased transition to the updated content is carried out on the basis of the State Program for Development of Education and Science in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2016–2019. In this regard, state compulsory educational standards, typical syllabus and curricula have been developed and approved. Updating the content of school education aims at improvement of professional and methodical training of prospective teachers in pedagogical higher institutions in the context of updating the educational program of higher education. The content of educational programs of higher pedagogical education should aim at implementation of the principle of continuity at school and should be presented in the course units related to each other successively, including integration with methodological disciplines, which will significantly improve the quality of professional training of prospective teachers. However, the analysis of the current national educational programs in higher and postgraduate education showed that their content did not fully take into account the changes made in school programs. The subjects were hardly complied with the content of school education; not all pedagogical universities in Kazkahstan take into account the balance, special courses are poorly correlated with teaching methodology. This affects the quality of training and may result in breaking the legal regulations. The quality of pupils» training and, therefore, the future of school education, depends on the quality of alumni graduated from pedagogical institutions. The changes in the content of secondary education and methods of pedagogical training require improving the successive ties, searching for new ways for continuity among educational programs at different levels of education. 

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