FUTURE EDUCATOR TRAINING TO ACQUAINT PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH MUSICAL PROFESSIONS

Abstract

The article highlights the theoretical and methodological principles of future educators of preschool education institutions training to acquaint children with music professions. Emphasis is placed on the sensitivity of preschool age for the development of children's musicality and interest in professions. It is emphasized that the formation of competence to acquaint preschoolers with musical professions takes place in the process of professional training of students majoring in Preschool Education in higher educational institutions and involves the implementation of three components. The cognitive component covers the system of formation of students’ knowledge about the psychological and pedagogical features of preschool children’s development, musical professions, purpose, tasks, content, methods, and forms of organization of preschoolers’ musical education. The activity component is characterized by the process of formation of competencies to plan and implement musical and didactic games to acquaint preschool children with the professions of a singer, an instrumentalist, a conductor, a composer, a DJ, a sound director, etc. The article presents the characteristics of one of the effective methods of their formation, namely the introduction of game technologies in the educational process of preschool educational institutions. The reflective component involves checking future educators’ readiness to acquaint preschool children with music professions on the basis of their competencies in the organization of play activities with students, the implementation of musical and didactic games in preschool educational institutions during teaching practice, participation in various informal extracurricular activities.