Conclusions
• Contemporary educational strategy requires a new approach towards the teacher training which
will produce an active, creative and open-minded teacher.
• This study into the quality of preparation of secondary and music department graduates using
the psychological methods (open ended questionnaire, test) carried out at our university showed
that teacher education continues to reflect the old paradigm: teacher-textbook-student.
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108 • However, certain movements to change the traditional paradigms should be observed (studenttextbook-teacher).
In single cases, the students identified the professionally valuable competencies
of an effective and modern teacher, though this identification is still spontaneous.
• To be equipped for the current social order - that of knowledgeable and professionally competent
individual – teacher education must produce the teacher equipped with teaching innovations
and professionally valuable competencies which development represent the essential
component of trainin