Educational or Scientific Career?

Abstract

One problem that arises when teaching in higher educational institutions is conducted by university professors is that the educator spends most of the time on their own scientific activities, to the detriment of the pedagogical orientation of the learning process and methodology. In addition, their requirements for research and publication activity are constantly increasing, and so we often encounter the concentration of teachers' attention on a scientific orientation. As a result, these teachers sometimes neglect the process of teaching students, which leads to a loss in the importance of the pedagogical component of the educational process. The overall nature of the problem lies in the importance of teaching in universities, which must be places where teaching is considered a priority activity, comparable to science and research. Therefore, in our environment, we can observe a gradually increasing offering of programs to strengthen the pedagogical competencies of teachers. In this article, we decided to focus on the pedagogical component of the educational process of teachers of higher educational institutions of the Chuvash Republic and their participation in the educational program.