TY - JOUR T1 - PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE AS A KEY TO REAL PEDAGOGUE’S SUCCESS SOLUTION JF - Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century Y1 - 2013 A1 - Vincentas Lamanauskas KW - mentor preparation KW - pedagogical activity KW - pedagogical practice AB - Pedagogical practice preparing future teachers is, undoubtedly, one of the most important elements of university studies. However, up to now pedagogical practice remains a very problematic sphere. Pedagogical activity, on the whole, is complicated, diverse and manifold. After all, it is an activity requiring creativity, high intellect and good psychological preparation. A student doing pedagogical practice, inevitably encounters various hardships -both specialty/professional and psychological. During the practice many different kinds of pedagogical situations are revealed. Various scientific research studies, carried out in the last few years, show the common situation – students-practitioners lack psychological preparation in communication with students, adjusting to a new environment, understanding them and so on. Thus, the problematics of pedagogical practice remains topical. How to achieve, that it were an effective instrument not only helping the student to develop, but also to understand the essence of pedagogical activity, to realise your calling and possibilities to do a very complicated and responsible pedagogue’s job in future. Can we agree with the statement, that there has to be left as little theory as possible, and to transform all theory into practice? It is obvious, that pedagogical practice process, should considerably be improved, adapted to the time period. How to do this? The question remains open. VL - 6 UR - https://oaji.net/articles/2014/444-1400266504.pdf ER -