The series of interviews with teachers at Stavropol State Agrarian University continues with Dmitry Alexandrovich Chernov, a teacher of Russian language and literature at the Department of Secondary Vocational Education.
The youngest students at St. Petersburg State Agrarian University study at the Department of Secondary Vocational Education, and they need a special modern approach. In just five years of teaching, Dmitry Alexandrovich Chernov has developed his own principles for studying Russian language and literature. How do movies help students learn? Why is it important to move away from the usual patterns? How to use information technologies in teaching humanities disciplines?
Dmitry, how many years have you been teaching?
- I have been teaching at Stavropol State Agrarian University for the fifth year since the opening of the department of secondary vocational education in 2018. Before that, I worked for five years in a school in the village of Dubovka Shpakovsky district.
What university did you graduate from?
- In 2015, I graduated with a bachelor's degree from North Caucasus Federal University, majoring in philology. Then immediately entered the master's program in "Pedagogical (philological) education. In 2017 I graduated with honors and plan to continue my postgraduate studies.
What do you love most about the teaching profession?
- I really like live classes so that students can not just read something from a notebook, but have a conversation, create an active dialogue, a discussion. This arouses the interest of the students and helps them in their cognitive activity and mastering comparative methods.
Often in my work I use information and communication technologies on various Internet platforms. They allow me to perform tasks in real time in a game format. I also do tests online and evaluate students' knowledge without extra paperwork. I prefer a computer-based learning format, because we live in the age of technology, where you have to keep up with the times.
Now with the students we study Russian classics of the 19th and 20th centuries. And I also allow the students to watch films in the study of literature. We even have an exercise where we watch a short film fragment during the lecture, and then the kids compare it with the source material. Of course, a literary work is more saturated with details, some subtleties, additional information about the characters and events, but watching a movie after reading a book is a good way to consolidate the material.
Is there anything you don't like about teaching?
- I don't like only paperwork like reports, but I understand that it is necessary. There is nothing global that I don't like in the profession. I develop and always tell students to tell me something new and not to be afraid to correct me if I have made a mistake somewhere. I think it's very cool that we can interact so openly.
Sometimes people ask me why I chose the profession of teaching, saying that it is nerves and all that. But I teach from the heart, I am deeply involved in this process, I work not for a salary, but because it gives me pleasure.
Have there been any failures on your professional path?
- I don't think so. If there are misunderstandings with students, we resolve them on the spot. I always say that if something happens, come up and we'll discuss it right away. We're all human. Even machines malfunction, and people have the right to make mistakes too. I think that it is better to just talk and get out of a bad condition, so there have been no critical situations in my practice.
What in the teaching profession makes you proud?
- I'm proud of the good relationships I've developed on the staff. It is very pleasant to hear from students, colleagues, and even those guys whose classes I don't teach, that they are somehow proud that the university has such a teacher. Perhaps because I love helping people, sharing experiences with them. I really like both the students and the university staff. I hope that this warm relationship will continue in the future.
In your opinion, the students now somehow have changed?
- The students now are different from those who were at the beginning of my teaching at the university. There has been some modernization, the students now grasp information as quickly as possible, and they are more communicative. Perhaps it is the influence of the Internet environment, but the guys understand the teachers at a glance. On the other hand, unfortunately, today's students are used to giving answers in a template, they have a clear plan in their head, which they probably learned at school. In my literature classes, I always ask them to feel free to just talk. Yes, maybe some percentage of the answer will be wrong, but it's better than a formulaic retelling anyway.
When I was at university, students were more straightforward and understanding. Now it's a time when guys have a kind of "ego", they can somehow answer sharply, disagree. I work at the Department of Secondary Vocational Education, and these are very young students - no longer schoolchildren, but not yet adults. There are certain peculiarities in working with such kids, and you have to find an approach to everyone.
What should a teacher do to have a positive impact on students?
- First of all in his/her professional activity a teacher should present the material in an interesting way: not just talk monotonously about his/her discipline, but do it in a way that somehow "touches" the students and what he/she is studying will stick in their memory, then both classes and relations with the students will be successful.
Also this month we spoke with Svetlana Viktorovna Popova, senior lecturer in the Mathematics Department. How are mathematics and nature related? Why didn't students want to study in the 90s? What kind of recreation will help with studies? - read at the link.
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