Training Future Primary School Teachers in the Context of Developing Constructive Skills in Younger Pupils

Abstract

Constructive skills help younger pupils to perceive and evaluate the harmony in life, nature, art, understand and create beauty in the surrounding reality and be creative. Therefore, it is crucial to train primary school teachers to develop constructive skills in younger pupils to reinforce their creative development. The paper aims to theoretically justify and experimentally verify the content, forms and methods of effective training of future primary school teachers for developing constructive skills in younger pupils. The students were divided into two groups, namely control group (CG -132 respondents) and experimental group (EG -137 respondents). It presents the author's educational and methodical complex, which reveals the content of such training and the use of effective forms for organizing the educational process in higher education institutions. It analyzes the levels of readiness of future teachers to develop constructive skills in younger pupils based on questionnaires, interviews, expert assessment, self-assessment, grading of teachers' personal and professionally essential qualities, tests, observations and methods for assessing creative thinking and motivation towards learning in younger pupils. The results obtained from the formative stage of the pedagogical experiment in the experimental group (EG) show that a mean value of a low level of future primary school teachers' readiness to develop constructive skills in younger pupils has decreased by 30.6%; a mean value of a sufficient level has increased by 14.9%; a mean value of a high level has decreased by 15.6%. At the same time, the corresponding values in the control group (CG) have not changed significantly. The results of the experimental work prove the expediency of introducing the author's model in the training of future primary school teachers.

Developing Healthcare Competency in Future Teachers

“…The only way to succeed in achieving this is to apply the forms and methods of physical education and sports within other educational subjects. The problem of developing healthcare competency has been extensively studied in doctoral theses by Andriushchenko (2015), Bakhmat et al 2019, Behas et al (2019), Bezliudnyi et al, (2019), Bobrytska (2006), Boichuk (2009), Byvalkevych et al, 2020, Dzhurynskyi (2013, Dmytruk (2015), Drozhyk (2015), Gerasymova et al (2019), Halaidiuk et al (2018), Harkusha (2015), Kaletnik et al, (2011), Khoroshukha (2015), Koziuk et al, (2020), Kozlovskyi (2010), Makoviichuk et al (2020), Maksymchuk (2016a;2016b;2017a;2018b), Maksymchuk et al (2018), Melnyk et al (2019), Meshko (2012), Ostafiichuk (2014), Sebalo, & Teslenko, (2020), Sheremet et al, (2019), Shulha (2016), Sitovskyi et al (2019), Voskoboinikova (2013), Zakharina (2013), Zavydivska (2012). The process of developing future teachers' healthcare competency is greatly influenced by scientific attainments of the scholars elaborating the problem under investigation (Becker, 1974;Braus, 1993;Brown, 1992;Bucher, 1960;Glanz et al, 1990;Jensen, 1999...…”

The Establishment and Development of Professional Training for Preschool Teachers in Western European Countries

“…Many scholars have explored the issue of studying innovative teaching experience of foreign countries and implementing the conception of professional teacher education (Bakhmat, 2018;Gerasymova et al, 2019;Green, Leney & Wolf, 1999;Haddad, 2002;Lukianova, 2015;Maksymchuk et al, 2018;Melnyk, 2015;Melnyk et al, 2019;Morin, 2001;Nychkalo, 2000;Pukhovska, 2013;Rinland, 1998;Sheremet, Leniv, Loboda, & Maksymchuk, 2019;Byvalkevych, Yefremova, & Hryshchenko, 2020;Sebalo & Teslenko, 2020;Makoviichuk, et al, 2020;Koziuk, Hayda, Dluhopolskyi, & Kozlovskyi, 2020;Kozlovskyi, 2010;Kaletnik, Zabolotnyi, & Kozlovskyi, 2011).…”

A Systemic Philosophical Analysis of the Contemporary Society and the Human: New Potential

“…It is growing more urgent for modern scientists to utilize new tools in their studies. Given that there is no and cannot be a universal problem-solving method, the ability to apply new modern methods becomes not only relevant but essential to gain more effective outcomes in education and scientific research (Melnyk, 2019;Sheremet, 2019;Gerasymova, 2019;Byvalkevych, 2020;Sebalo, 2020;Makoviichuk, 2020;Koziuk, 2020;Kozlovskyi, 2010;Kaletnik, 2011). The systems methodology and synergetics have been among such "trendy" methodologies in the 20th century and the late 20th and early 21st centuries.…”