Forecasting Your Own Professional Future in the Process of Developing the Educational Program of Pedagogical Education

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of embedding in the content of the main professional educational program the study of the student's own professional future. The study of the personal professional future in the process of mastering the educational program will allow future teachers to develop not only planning and adaptation skills, but also to identify emerging trends in future professional activities at different time period. In the study, the time period is considered as the ability of a future teacher to keep in mind and take into account trends for a certain time perspective when analyzing and making decisions about their professional career. In the process of mastering the main professional educational program the teacher will also form futures-literacy. The purpose of the study is to identify and substantiate the content and technological possibilities for using personal foresight to predict the professional future. The article presents a structural and functional model of developing a personal foresight in real educational practice. Diagnostic data and results of the model implementation are presented: a series of personal foresights and foresight sessions in the process of mastering the main professional educational program future teachers and educational psychologists began to better recognize their professional values and goals, understand their feelings regarding the selected profiles of educational programs and career prospects. The students demonstrated an increase in their ability to assess the degree of their control over external circumstances at various time period.