Educator ‒ Methodologist of Preschool Education Institution: competence-professional paradigm of a modern specialist

Abstract

The article presents the training of future educators-methodologists for methodical work in preschool institutions. Particularly, the formation of professional and methodological competence in applicants for higher education in the master's degree. The concept of "methodical work in preschool education" was determined, and we perceive it as a comprehensive pedagogical system of interaction of all participants in the educational process and the teaching staff of the institution which were aimed at improving the quality of the educational process; raising the professional and competence level of psychological, pedagogical and methodological readiness for the organization and content of the educational process of the preschool educational institution, the pedagogical skills of educators in the conditions of the preschool educational institution where they work. In Ukraine was developed the State Standard for the formation of professional and methodological competence of educators-methodologists preschool educational institutions. At the University of Ushinsky (Odessa) under the leadership was conducted an experimental study on the training of future educators-methodologists of preschool educational institution in the master's program. The educational work program "Methodical work in preschool educational institutions" and "Syllabus" to the required discipline was developed. The purpose of the educational program was the formation of future educators-methodologists of professional and methodological competence. We understand the professional and methodological competence of future educators-methodologists as the integration of professional and personal qualities of a specialist necessary for successful methodical activity of an educator-methodologist: its intelligence, mobility, flexibility, critical thinking, self-criticism, methodological maturity and methodological cultures. Future educators-methodologists scores are involved in various forms of experimental methods: lectures-dialogues, polylogues, dual lectures with prior training of students, development of innovative projects, laboratory classes directly in the preschool educational institutions under the guidance of an educator-methodologist, etc . The formation of professional and methodological competence of future educators-methodologists was determined by the following criteria: professionalism, methodological literacy, methodological culture. The obtained results were quite positive in terms of the formation of professional and methodological competence in the applicants of the experimental group compared to the control.