Formation of Future Teacher’s Readyness for the Information Competence Self-Design in the Educational Environment of Higher Education Establishments

Abstract

The article highlights the theoretical and practical aspects of the formation of future teachers’ readiness for the information competence self-design by means of the educational environment. The essence of the concept of “information competence” from the standpoint of different sciences and methodological approaches has been revealed. An appropriate educational environment of HEE was created to implement the technology of the formation of future teachers' readiness for the information competence self-design. This educational environment is a set of organizational, psychological and pedagogical actions and tools aimed at organizational and managerial, information and didactic, scientific and methodological and logistical support of this process, its main subjects. The modular object-oriented dynamic environment of Moodle is used for the realization of educational process tasks on the formation of future teachers' readiness for the information competence self-design. Experimental testing of the developed technology was conducted on 3 stages: ascertaining (diagnostics methods development of the formation of future teacher’s readiness for the information competence self-design, conducting initial diagnostics in control and experimental groups and designing the formation process of a specialist’s specified quality on the basis of research results and developed technology of its implementation in the educational environment of HEE), formative (the developed technology introduction, pedagogical tools, scientific and methodical support of the formation process of future teacher’s readiness for the information competence self-design, monitoring the formation level of the studied phenomenon in students of control and experimental groups), control (final diagnosis, comparative analysis of initial and final diagnosis). The study results indicate the positive impact of the developed technology on the dynamics level of the future teachers’ readiness for the information competence self-design in the educational environment of HEE.
 Keywords: information competence; teacher’s information competence; functions of information competence; future teacher; educational environment of HEE; methodological approaches; self-design; technology of readiness formation; higher education establishment (HEE).

Development of a Сulture of Information and Communication with Children among Future Educators

“…Zaporozhtseva [12], O. Kravchyshyna [13], I. Nikolayesku [14], I. Taran [15] and others. The development of the future teacher's readiness for various types of activities in the presence of certain conditions was considered by V. Kurok [16], I. Mardarova and O. Lystopad [17], O. Mkrtichian [18] and others. The issues of using ICTs by future educators to ensure the logical and mathematical development of preschool children were investigated by K. Hnezdilova [19], L. Ishchenko [20], S. Chupahina [21], O. Brezhnieva and K. Shcherbakova [22] and others.…”

“…The information environment, that is, everything that surrounds the student is constantly undergoing changes, V. Kurok and A. Hritchenko pay attention to this fact in their paper [16], and therefore, working with new information "determines the need for continuous improvement of the teacher's information competence". It is important that in the process of obtaining higher education, future teachers develop information competence and readiness to improve it.…”