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Today, the Rector of the Pedagogical University Rouben Mirzakhanyan awarded certificates to 21 lecturers of the Faculty of Philology, Chair of Armenian Modern and New Literature and its Teaching Methods, Ancient and Medieval Armenian Literature and its Teaching Methods, and Chair of Armenian Language and its Teaching Methods after Ararat Gharibyan.
From 11 to 22 December, the Lecturers participated in professional development trainings on Armenian Language and Literature / duration 36 hours /.
“Holding the training session is not just a wish; it is required by the Law for the implementation of which the University is making relevant steps. Participation in trainings and receiving relevant certificates are important prerequisites for future employment offers or for assuming vacant positions in future”, mentioned Rouben Mirzakhanyan and noticed that the trainees were the ones who needed to speak about the effectiveness and quality of trainings.
Moreover, during the meeting the Rector referred to the recently much discussed RA draft Law on “Higher Education” and observed that at least a year would be needed for the University to implement that law.
“Transition to the new educational system requires new knowledge, including in the IT sphere”, assured Rouben Mirzakhanyan and added that the Google Classroom platform, which had been used at the University for already a while, would help them not to stay behind the changes in education sector.
In addition, during the meeting, the Vice- Rector Srbouhi Gevorgyan mentioned that the trainings had been held in an initially reviewed format in compliance with modern methods.
“After the process of analyzing the assessment and wrap-up of the professional training session the specialists marked the strengths and weaknesses, risks and improvements thereof, and thanks to that it would be possible to change and improve the system in future.”
The Dean of the Faculty of Philology Ashot Galstyan spoke about the organization of the process highlighting that the best trainers had been chosen, and the topics were quite actual. Likewise, the Dean added that they were glad to see the training programmes on pedagogy, however, a more substantial meaning could have been given to the pedagogical methodology.
In her turn, the lecturer of the Chair of Ancient and Medieval Armenian Literature and its Teaching Methods, Professor Aelita Doloukhanyan noticed that the topic she had introduced during the training session about the “International Value of Medieval Armenian Literature” was not included either in undergraduate, or postgraduate academic programmes.
Likewise, the Professor highlighted that there wasn’t even a single piece of work on this topic; however, similar novelties had also been presented within the framework of lectures by the invited NAS lecturers. “Trainings held in such format help to avoid professional standstill and to jointly get familiarized with the changes and innovations taking place in various areas”.
The participants of the training provided feedback and made suggestions in regards with the session, and the Rector Rouben Mirzakhanyan promised to refer to them assuring that the best ideas would be put into practice in future.
