In the article the main factors (dialogical, creative, professional and reflexive), the observance of which contributes to the productive implementation of a personally oriented approach, are analyzed. The authors have identified these factors as psychological and pedagogical prerequisites for the implementation of a personally-oriented approach to learning, providing assistance to students in order to improve their self-esteem, achievement of self-confidence, inspiration in the intellectual and emotional process of discovering his/her own personality (including traits) in the sphere of knowledge and development of talents. The article reveals the essence of the concept of "extracurricular activities" and distinguishes its advantages over the conventional school educational process. The authors emphasize that this type of activity allows to clearly reveal the needs of students, enables them to act in new social roles. The article determines that the most common group form of organization of extracurricular work is a circle (work group); the main types of circles in computer science are described and discussed. On the basis of experience of "Applied software" work group (circle) the authors have formulated the skills and abilities the pupils are to acquire during their extracurricular activities. The authors described the ways to implement a person-centered approach when organizing group work. The article concludes that the involvement of gifted students in various projects within the circle work helps them develop teamwork cooperation, deepen their knowledge and improve their skills in both computer science and other subjects, as well as to open new facets of knowledge concerning the surrounding world. In the long run pupils lean to adapt to different conditions of their future profession, as well as to perceive themselves as highly-qualified specialists.

The reorientation of the educational process into the formation of a creative person causes changes in the modern pedagogical activity, which is largely determined by the readiness of the teacher to develop the creative thinking of students, whose formation is carried out in the educational environment of a higher educational institution. The main goal of the article is describing the technology of forming the readiness of future teachers of informatics for the development of creative thinking of senior pupils in extracurricular activities. The methods of research used: theoretical (analysis of scientific sources, revealing of reliable facts about the interconnections between phenomena and processes and the regular tendencies of their development, comparison, modeling, system-structural and system

Ключові слова: творчість, творче мислення, риси творчого мислення, розвиток творчого мислення, позанавчальна діяльність, позанавчальна діяльність з інформатики, технологія розвитку творчого мислення старшокласників, компетентності (практичні, творчі, соціальні).

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