Propedeutics of Creative Development of the Future Specialist in the Process of Vocational Training

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the organization of propaedeutic work for the creative development of future specialists in the process of vocational training. The authors noted that arming future specialists with knowledge, skills, experience, providing creative development of the individual, will allow them to adapt more quickly to real professional activity, to be able not only to adapt to the existing conditions of this activity, but also to change them. The benefit of this study is authors’ definitition that propaedeutic work with students for the purpose of their creative development involves: the teacher’s preliminary training, which is to increase its motivation regarding the importance of forming the future specialists’ creative competence; the preparation of methodical support; the activation of a conscious, positive attitude of teachers towards the formation of the students’ creative competence; the acquaintance with its content and structure; the development and elaboration of educational and methodological recommendations for implementation of the methodical system for forming creative competence in the process of future specialists’ professional training. Also the authors underlined the fact that, in the process of working with students, there was the emergence of positive benchmarks for future professional activities and the focus on their mastering a system of professional knowledge, skills and abilities; the formation of the motivation for a creative self-development and self-improvement, the awareness of their own creative potential, the clarification of life and professional sense, goals and plans; the formation of ideas about creative competence as an essential characteristic of the future specialist. Moreover, the authors made a conclusion, that the result of propaedeutics was the identification of positive benchmarks for future professional activities and the focus on the future professionals’ development in the system of professional knowledge, skills and abilities; the formation of the motivation for creative self-development and self-improvement, ideas about the creative competence of future professionals as an essential characteristic of professionalism, the awareness of their own creative potential, the clarification of life and professional sense, goals and plans.