The purpose of the article: to substantiate the urgency of the problem of providing rural schools with qualified teachers; to characterize digital innovations and their use in rural education in the conditions of COVID-19; to analyze the difficulties and prospects for preparing teachers for the use of digital technologies in distance learning in rural remote schools. The following research methods were used: analytical, empirical, and mathematical statistics. Theoretical analysis of the state of the problem in pedagogical science, in particular, the introduction of digital innovations in the educational process is outlined as a necessary condition for sustainable development of rural education. The results of an empirical study conducted among future teachers on their readiness to work in the future in rural areas are presented. A gap was revealed between young teachers’ professional expectations and real school practice in remote rural schools. Emphasis was placed on the necessity to ensure cooperation between schools, parents, the public, and local businesses to improve the quality of rural education.

The urgency of the problem of future primary school teacher training for dialogic learning of students taking into account modern challenges of globalization and digitalization of education is substantiated. The contradictions taking place in the practice of professional training in pedagogical universities are emphasized. The theoretical aspect of the outlined problem is highlighted. The characteristics of the content of the following concepts are given: dialogic learning, educational dialogue, dialogic communication, pedagogical communication, the teacher’s communication culture, communication etiquette, etc. The components of teachers’ pedagogical skills as personal and professional factors of successful organization of dialogic learning in school are presented. It is proved that the organization of dialogic learning at school requires the formation of a teacher's system of skills, namely: to organize and manage the dialogic process in learning; create a positive communicative atmosphere for the exchange of thoughts and ideas; pedagogically expedient to stimulate communication between students; apply advanced dialogic learning technologies; motivate students to create or solve educational tasks using productive dialogue; effectively use means of verbal and nonverbal communication; make emotional contact and listen to the interlocutor, etc. The strategy of communicative approach in the educational process of the pedagogical university is widespread, first of all as for humanities. The author notes that the readiness of future primary school teachers to organize a productive educational dialogue is determined not only by the level of development of communicative abilities and skills, but also other personal traits: intellectual qualities, motivation for teaching, love for children, emotional balance, empathy, tolerance, professional responsibility, high level of moral culture, readiness for innovative activity, desire for self-improvement and self-education, etc. The author's material from the dissertation “Training of primary school teachers to organize dialogic learning” for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2020) is partially used in the article.

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The article substantiates the necessity to study the criterion-content and level structure regarding the formation of readiness of future elementary school teachers to organize dialogic teaching. While creating the program of the experimental work the author has taken into account the basic postulations of psychological and pedagogical science, concerning the problem of the readiness of future specialists to organize dialogic teaching, professionalism of activity and communication and dialogic pedagogical communication. The article offers indicative criteria for studying the readiness of future elementary school teachers to organize dialogic teaching of students: need-motivational, cognitive, social-communicative, reflexive-value and operational-activity, as well as indicators of their detection. The levels of readiness of future elementary school teachers to organize dialogic training are determined - high, medium and low. The author presents the results of the empirical study of the state of students' readiness for dialogic teaching of primary school students according to the need-motivational criterion. The results of diagnostics of future teachers' motivation of achievement, understanding of their motivational structure of dialogic teaching, internal motivation of their readiness for self-development, resistance to external influences (in particular, results of ranking by the degree of importance of motives of future pedagogical professional activity) are presented. It is proved that the introduction into the process of training of primary school teachers of the author’s model allows to change substantially the motivation of future specialists for future professional activity.

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