Formation of Professionalism of Future Primary School Teachers with Disabilities and Disabilities

Abstract

In society stereotypes of perception of people with disabilities are changing. Analysis of the problems of professional development of young people with disabilities is becoming an important area of scientific research. Explicit and hidden causes of physical defects affect the formation of a strategy for overcoming difficulties in mastering a specialty. This process takes on a special direction in the formation of the professionalism of the primary school teacher. The study was conducted in the 2019–2020 academic year. It was attended by 20 future primary school teachers. Of these, 16 students with general diseases, 3 students with diseases of the musculoskeletal system (MSA) and 1 visually impaired student. Approaches to the study of the stages of the formation of professionalism of a future primary school teacher who has problems with physical indicators of health are considered from the point of view of the dominant influence of 2 factors. The first is related to the awareness of the problems of modern situations of children’s development. The second – with the degree of formation of behavioral professional control when assessing their own abilities and the available health-preserving resource. The structure of professionalism is made up of “bio-medical-physiological” indicators of physical health, personality and activity-determined components of professionalism, the effectiveness, the functioning of which is determined by the indicators of the success of the student’s independent solution of their problems. The psychological and pedagogical and also mechanisms providing the professionalism formation are highlighted. Analytical competence is highlighted as the leading pedagogical competence that ensures the formation of professionalism. The article highlights the qualitative characteristics of sufficient, acceptable and below the acceptable levels of formation of analytical competence, and also outlines the leading directions of its formation. Keywords: professionalism formation of the future primary school teacher, “health-saving” resource of professionalization with disabilities, mechanisms for the professionalism development, self-educational actions of junior schoolchildren, development of student’s analytical competence