INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES OF TEACHING ‘PEDAGOGY OF PRIMARY EDUCATION’ COURSE IN THE LIGHT OF THE NEW UKRAINIAN SCHOOL CONCEPTUAL IDEAS

Abstract

The article highlights the theoretical and methodological features of innovative personality-oriented technologies introduction in the teaching the discipline ‘Pedagogy of Primary Education’ for future primary school teachers. The experience of using interactive, problem, aesthetic therapy technologies in lectures and practical classes, taking into account the implementation of conceptual ideas of the New Ukrainian School (partnership pedagogy, personality orientation, motivated teacher, education on values, etc.).
 The purpose of studying the course ‘Pedagogy of Primary Education’ by future primary school teachers is determined, which consists of the development of professional motivation, formation of a system of knowledge about psychological and pedagogical bases of teaching and education of junior schoolchildren, modern forms of school interaction with family, development of practical skills and organizational skills., the educational environment of the New Ukrainian school on the basis of humanistic pedagogy. It is established that the most effective innovative technologies for teaching the course ‘Pedagogy of Primary Education’ are personality-oriented technologies, including interactive, project technologies, aesthetic therapy, and more.
 Interactive technologies are aimed at ensuring active interaction of participants through the optimal combination of various activities, including communication, creation of psychologically comfortable conditions, in which each student feels their uniqueness, individuality, self-sufficiency. Among the many interactive teaching methods of primary education pedagogy, the most productive, in our opinion, are dialogue, discussion, brainstorming, incomplete sentence, ‘carousel’, the method of the business game, analysis of pedagogical situations, the method of PRESS and others. The use of project technologies for studying primary education pedagogy promotes individual and creative development of personality, research skills, enables finding an individual approach to each student, and gives the opportunity to choose a more convenient way of learning and the pace of work. The result of the project can be a laptop (hand-made interactive mini-book on the topic), a knowledge map (structuring educational information in visual form), etc. Aesthetic theories contribute to the provision of a specific emotional atmosphere by activating the sensory sphere of the individual and the development of creative potential in the process of educational and cognitive activities. The most effective aesthetic therapy technologies include fairy tale therapy, laughter therapy, psycho gymnastics, etc.
 Emphasis is placed on the development of the professional motivation of students by involving them in interactive interaction, implementation of educational projects, individual creative tasks, aesthetic therapy activities, and more.