Conditions of preschool teachers’ formation in higher education institutions

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to providereaderswith information onthe actual problem of preschool teachers’ training —conditions of future preschool pedagogues’successful learning in higher education institutions.The present state oftheeducational environment plays an important role in the process of pedagogues’ for-mation.The article focuses on the theoretical methodologyof the problem, revealing several reviewsof peda-gogical and psychological research. The authors point out several reasons forstudents' successfulor unsuc-cessfulstudying process in higher educational institutions, such as motivation, self-esteem, type of thinking, communication level, level ofcreative thinking,and kinds of relationshipsamong students.Attention is drawn to analyzing these features, methods of evaluation, and results in calculations for them to improve the effectiveness of the educational process.A set of active and interactive methods and educational events for students aimed at improvingthe level of motivation, self-esteem, type of thinking, communication level, level of creative thinking,and kinds of relationships among students is proposed.An experiment was conducted and described in which a set of methods and educational eventswas tested. The results of the experiment showed a positive impact of the selected methods and activities in the preparation of preschool education spe-cialists.