Використання інтернет-ресурсів в особистісно-професійному розвитку майбутніх педагогів

Abstract

The article dwells on the necessity for purposive personal and professional teacher training according to personal intentions, social expectations and a new strategy of professional training. Main contents and the core of the concept “future teachers’ personal and professional development” is characterized. In the article, these concepts are considered as a complex multifaceted process aimed at forming general and professional competences of future teachers, development of their personal meanings, the components of which are the desire for self-knowledge and self-development, professional excellence, the ability and willingness to respond to the challenges of time, to develop their own trajectory of professional and personal growth. Moreover, key components of the concept are distinguished. Among them, one of the most crucial is formation of lifelong abilities to self-knowledge, self-development, and self-improvement. Peculiarities of using ICT technologies in the personal and professional development of both future primary school teachers and teachers of preschool education institutions are presented. The article generalizes results of the empirical research conducted among students and teachers-practitioners proving the necessity for a focused and systematic work on the formation of the first year students’ skills in working with the most common e-services (learningapps.org, prezi.com, calameo.com, wordart.com, сoggle.it, padlet.com, etc.). The scientific discourse dwells on the experience of using network resources in student’s educational and extra-curricular activities in the higher education institution. Particularly, when writing Bachelor’s, Master’s researchers, doing their self-study tasks in psychological and pedagogical subjects, and during pedagogical practices. The major cross-curricular skills (digital, research, critical thinking and reflection) are defined in the article. Their development promotes the ability and readiness to search for necessary information, creating new knowledge for personal and professional development. Peculiarities of using electronic resources for self-knowledge and self-development of future teachers in the Center of Competencies at Pedagogical Institute of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University are emphasized.