REALISING AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH IN PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED ECONOMICS TEACHER TRAINING OF MASTER STUDENTS

Abstract

In the article the author discusses an innovative approach to training prospective teachers, analyses issues of realizing this approach in professionally-oriented training of master students for teaching economic disciplines and their pedagogical mastery development at economic universities as well as scientific and pedagogical aspects of the problem of modernizing the master student education system at the current stage of its development, summarises ways of using modern methods, technologies and innovative pedagogical ideas to modernize the master student professional training for teaching activity, focuses attention on factors influencing effectiveness of economics teacher professional training and its intensification, emphasizes the importance of economics master students for pedagogical activity at higher educational establishments and their pedagogical mastery development. The author states that modern education is characterized by innovative processes and teachers are real participants in these processes. The author points out that the process of globalization, development of the Internet, free access to educational information resources have brought about a unique opportunity to find solutions to problems connected with modernization and intensification of professionally-oriented training of prospective teachers, which means, in particular, an opportunity to use electronic resources for learning, to effectively combine different forms of education in order to improve pedagogical interaction between teacher and student. Therefore great attention must be paid to high quality teacher training and pedagogical mastery development. The author makes a conclusion that the analysed innovative approach is worth using in teacher training at economic universities in particular.