PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FORMING FUTURE TEACHERS’ READINESS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF PRIMARY-SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The current innovations in the system of education demand the high level of readiness, abilities to changes, rapid adjustment, and adaptation to new educational conditions. The article reveals and analyzes basic pedagogical conditions of the primary school teachers’ training for the development of students’ creative potential. It was found out that the basic pedagogical conditions of the primary school teachers’ training for the development of students’ creative potential are providing motivation for teachers to develop students’ creative potential; purposeful filling of the content of primary school teachers' training with a creative component in order to improve professional teachers’ competence about the development of students’ creative potential; organization of educational and methodological support for teachers. The article proves that the structure of readiness of future primary school teachers to the development of students’ creative potential consists of components that are closely related, criteria and factors that make dynamic integrity and have level characteristics. The structure of readiness of future primary school teachers to the development of students’ creative potential includes motivational, procedural and resulting components. Substantiated by the author tools for evaluation of readiness of future primary school teachers to the development of students’ creative potential made it possible to understand the content and the relationship among the criteria (motivational and value, activity and creative, professional and evaluation), relevant indicators of the specified readiness (the formation of the teacher's internal motives for professional development and value orientations; the degree of creative solution of educational tasks and creative approach to pedagogical activity with primary school students; professional readiness for pedagogical activity and readiness for professional self-development). The result of the primary school teachers’ training is readiness for the development of primary school students’ creative potential, the specifics of which are the motivation of future teachers to master the professional knowledge, skills and abilities to develop students' creative potential, mastering the necessary creative abilities and a high level of professional competence.