NEW COMPETENCE OF BIOLOGY TEACHER IN THE FACE OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES

Abstract

Education must constantly be adapted to new needs. Educational tasks determine new styles of teachers' work and also their competences, showing that the effects of the course of didactic process depend on the teacher's awareness to a large extent, way of understanding of the school's reality and the students themselves. Currently the media are ever-present. The teacher must be aware of the influence of outside school interference and psychological barriers related to the communication process. Mass media and hypermedia shape new patterns and new values. The 'overheated' and synthetic announcements often limit the intellectual effort and the critical thinking. On the other hand e-communication is a stimulator of mass education. It requires from teachers use of strategies leading to rebuilding the earlier structure of students' knowledge, creating different structures in connection with new students' concepts and needs in response to new information. The survey research among 45 biology teachers was conducted. Conclusions drawn from research results (analysis of documents and survey) allowed the elaboration priorities for biology teacher training in the contemporary world of media