EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT LEVEL OF A PROFESSIONAL-PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Abstract

The paper presents the stating stage of the pedagogical experiment in which the levels of the development of a professional-pedagogical competence of primary school teachers have been studied. We used the following research methods: observation, conversations and testing. Diagnostic blocks of a professional-pedagogical competence of primary school teachers were identified: theoretical-methodological and psychological-pedagogical training. The total number of the participants of the pedagogical experiment was 1960 people, including 960 people in an experimental group and 952 people in a control group, besides 48 teachers-experts from pedagogical universities were involved. Statistical results of the interviewing were summed up taking into account the number of questions, the highest possible number of points received for the answers to the questions, and the total number of points according to the level of a block development that was evaluated. We state that as far as the level of a theoretical-methodological training is concerned (knowledge and skills of theoretical principles of a professional-pedagogical activity; knowledge and skills of the use of the methods of a professional pedagogical activity; knowledge of the history of the development and a current state of the achievements in a professional-pedagogical activity), big amount of primary school teachers corresponded to a sufficient level. This can be explained with teaching the subjects of humane and fundamental training at pedagogical universities. The results of the experiment have shown that the process of the development of a professional-pedagogical competence of primary school teachers requires the improvement, it becomes possible with providing the readiness of an individual for distance education; the organizational-technical support of distance education; the teaching-methodological support of distance education; the organization of the process of distance education on an individual basis; a continuous psychological-pedagogical support of distance education; a system improvement of the qualification of distance education organizers.
 Keywords: professional-pedagogical competence, experimental group, control group, primary school teachers, university teachers, pedagogical experiment, distance education, diagnostics.