ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ВЕБ-КВЕСТ-ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ У ПІДГОТОВЦІ МАЙБУТНІХ УЧИТЕЛІВ ПОЧАТКОВОЇ ШКОЛИ

Abstract

The intensive development of educational technologies is presenting serious challenges to education in Ukraine, which requires to review educational content, forms, teaching methods and technologies for promoting pupils’ cognitive activities, increasing their motivation that enhance the development of professional and key life competencies, which enables to bring up a personality ready for independent creative professional activities. The main innovations in education are interactive technologies along with ICT, therefore there is an urgent need in training future primary school teachers in using those technologies, particularly in organizing educational web quest. The notion of quest, types of quests, quest technologies and the innovating teaching method such as web quest technology are analyzed in the article. The experience in using web quest technology in training future primary school teachers has been examined in Ukraine and other countries. In this work, the peculiarities of using web quest technology are considered and the necessity of using new approaches in training future primary school teachers is substantiated, the advantages of integrating modern internet technologies into educational process, the usage of web quests at lessons and during self-studying are described. The notion of web quest is clarified, its typology is given, as well as the possibilities of using this innovative technology in educational process in a higher educational institution is considered. In the article the practical usage of web quest on the platform Padlet is described, the peculiarities of organizing work based on web quest technology for a teacher and the requirements to a student’s level of training are given. Using web quest technology with the virtual interactive board Padlet in training future primary school teachers is quite an efficient way to develop theoretical and practical competencies of a specialist who will be able to plan their own professional activity and work in a team to achieve the set objectives.