FUTURE BIOLOGY TEACHER TRAINING IN THE CONTEXT OF TASKS OF OUTCOME-BASED APPROACH

Abstract

The article justifies the current trends of the future Biology teacher training in the context of tasks of outcome-based approach. It is proved that the functioning of the modern system of specialists training, raising social requirements for institutions of higher education determinates the necessity for highly qualified teachers who are able to organize the educational process creatively and achieve high quality results. It is established that the quality improvement of the future Biology teacher training is due to the possibility of mobile response of the educational process to the public needs, school needs, human needs. It is possible to implement the set of tasks by building a quality management system of the future teacher training, which is aimed at formation of key and special competences. Since Ukraine has been involved in Bologna Process (2005) and as provided for by the Berlin Communique (2003) and Lisbon Treaty (2007) the modernization of the higher education is started in our country. The main purpose of it is to realize a big number of innovations and the honored position among them is taken by competence-based approach. An important factor in developing of the future Biology teacher competence is the providing of whole new level of methodological disciplines studying, as the Biology teacher methodological training is a part of the general culture, which is also the main link of the general qualities structure, which is the basis of the modern teacher’s model. The professional competence of the Biology teacher is interpreted in the research as an integral, intellectual, personal, professional association, which starts formation in the process of professional teacher’s training in higher educational institutions, develops and improves in the process of professional activity. The article analyses the peculiarities of the regulatory support of outcome-based approach for Biology teacher training in the educational process of a pedagogical institution of higher education. There was studied the genesis of the introduction of outcome-based approach into the system of specialists training in institutions of higher education of Ukraine. The definition of such concepts as “teacher training”, “outcome-based approach”, "professional competence," general competence”, “special (subject) competences” was clarified. It was proved that the competence of a Biology teacher is an integrated structure, which is determined by a dynamic combination of general and special competences, which determine the effectiveness of professional activity of a specialist.