FORMING FUTURE SPEECH THERAPISTS MOTIVATIONAL ORIENTATION IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROCESS

Abstract

The article focuses on the modification of organizational paradigms for the educational process and finding out the ways to improve the content of future speech therapists training.The author points out that the current format of distance learning requires a concentration of efforts aimed at motivating each student, improving an interaction processes between teacher and student. The formation of motivational and personal criterion for the readiness of future speech therapists for professional activities involves increasing the importance of professional motives, increasing interest in speech therapy as a science, willingness to work with children with speech disorders.The importance of including future speech therapists in the professional environment for the purpose of successful formation of motivational orientation is substantiated: making practical lessons with speech therapists-practitioners, problem solving in the professional situations during practical lessons. Modernization of the content of practical lessons for students and use of practice-oriented and research approaches allowed to form a system of positive motivation: understanding the important role of speech therapist, forming the personality traits needed in correctional work, organizing successful cooperation with children with speech disorders and their parents, creating a barrier-free information and educational environment.The results of the study of readiness for professional activity by the motivational and personal criterion show that students highly value the presence of professionally important traits of a speech therapist (an optimistic prognosis, barrier-free communication, psychological readiness to work with a child with speech disorders and provide counselling and social psychological support for family in which this child is brought up).It is pointed out that the use of training techniques can increase the level of professional motivation necessary for successful mastering of the speech therapist profession.
 Keywords: professional training, speech therapist, motivational and personal criterion, motivation, professional traits, professional environment, educational process, personal traits.