Preparing Future Teachers To Design Educational Content In Distance Learning Environments

Abstract

This article describes the use of distance learning in training future primary school teachers to design educational content. The author defines the contradiction between the modern constantly changing conditions arising in the process of education informatization and the real level of future school teachers’ readiness to activity in these conditions. Therefore preparation for designing of an educational content as the structured content of the training placed in the information-educational environment and presented by means of an electronic resource, allows future teachers to become more adapted to conditions of the future profession. On an example of the design activity ways organization of students training at pedagogical higher education institute are shown. The importance of design activity in the process of future professional formation is underlined. Designing principles an educational content which it is necessary to adhere to students at carrying out of the given activity are defined: consistency, modularity, adaptability and variability, interactivity, availability. The list of various Internet resources that can be used in the professional training of future teachers during distance learning. These include VKontakte social network, Skype, Playbuzz, CourseLab, iSpring Suite, Trello. The stages in which training was conducted in classroom and extracurricular training were described: information stage, operational stage, behavioral stage. During each stage, certain tasks were solved. Emphasis is placed on the most significant forms of training organization and their content (workshops, master classes, laboratory and practical classes). The listed organizational measures allowed to make the process of training future teachers of primary classes more effective.