COOPERATION BETWEEN PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND FAMILIES IN THE PROCESS OF FORMING PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S IDEAS ABOUT PROFESSIONS

Abstract

The article reveals the peculiarities of forming preschool children’s ideas about professions in the process of interaction of educators of preschool education institutions with families. The modern scientists’ research analysis gives the chance to emphasize that a kindergarten teacher needs to constantly improve the level of the pedagogical skill and to carry out a creative search of methods and forms of families’ involvement in the educational process of preschool institutions.Peculiarities of realization of modern forms of interaction of preschool educational institutions teachers with families in the process of formation of ideas about professions are covered. Various methods and forms of pedagogical education and cooperation with parents are considered, namely traditional one, which are widely and long used in the practice of preschool educational institutions, and innovative, non-traditional one.It is determined that during the formation of ideas about the profession it is necessary to follow the stages in working with parents. At the first stage, parents acquire theoretical knowledge. At the second stage, the objectives are to form parents’ pedagogical skills and abilities, to provide actualization of a family’s pedagogical potential, to help parents in education, training, and development of the child by disclosure of the maintenance, forms, methods, means of training and education. At the third stage, the analysis of efficiency of the offered system of interaction of preschool educational institutions with a family is provided.The implementation of traditional and non-traditional forms of interaction, in particular modern ICT technologies, is characterized. There is networking technology (feedback technology); educators’ personal blogs about the organization of the community of users (members of the children’s family), dissemination of educational information for children through social networks (the Facebook, the Instagram); instant messaging (Viber, WhatsApp, Skype, ICQ, Telegram); sms-mailings for informing about a certain event (for example, about the planned event) of those parents who do not have access to e-mail; online meetings of the parent committee (family club, parent conference) in the format of a Zoom conference.The effectiveness of non-traditional forms of interaction is determined. They are the following: weekend excursions, excursions into the profession during which preschool children get acquainted with new professions.