Improvement of Technical Training of Future Handicraft Teachers

Abstract

The research objective is a theoretical study of the essence of technical training in higher education institutions and the development of ways for improving technical training of future handicraft teachers. The research subject is the content and the method of forming of competence of future handicraft teachers to provide students with the lessons of fundamentals of technology. In the course of the study, the following research methods were used: theoretical (analysis of philosophical, psychological-pedagogical and methodological literature, thesis papers on the problem of research, materials and publications of the pedagogical and periodical press as well as comparison, systematization, generalization of the obtained information to determine the state of theory and practice of the formation of technical training of the future teacher, formulation of methodological and theoretical bases of the study, taking into account the domestic and foreign experience in specifying the essence and special aspects of technical training of future handicraft teachers); empirical methods: questionnaire, observation, self-assessment, interviews with students, educators, methodological experts in pedagogical practice and school teachers, analysis of performance through which the study of motivation and readiness of future handicraft teachers for learning the fundamentals of technology with students. Based on the analysis of academic literature, the experience of leading pedagogical staff of education institutions of Ukraine, the introduction of a specialized course of study will contribute to the improvement of the quality of technical training of future handicraft teachers, the provision of students with a system of knowledge about the interoperation of manufacture, equipment and handicraft lessons, the acquisition a system of knowledge, skills and expertise when dealing with sewing and culinary techniques.