Self-Development as a Factor in the Professional Growth of Future Teachers

Hanna Ivaniuk,Yaroslav Vovchok,Olena Venhlovska,Yevhen Antypin

doi:10.7596/taksad.v9i4.2873

Abstract

The study aimed to substantiate the concept of as a factor in the professional growth of future and to empirically research the effectiveness of technological tools that affect the development of its components. Self-development as a factor in the professional growth of future teachers in the context of the article is considered as a motivated self-progress of applicants for higher education in pedagogical specialties, which is based on personal senses and aimed at developing their professional potential. To achieve this goal at different stages of the study, we applied: author questionnaires using Google service (Google Forms tool), individual protocols for self-assessment, diagnostic technologies of self-awareness and self-development - the flower of my research skills, a cascade of sequences, a basket of ideas, personal projects technologies - pedagogical portfolios, cases, Self-book, projects, business (imitation) games, maps of professional self-development. The generalization of the data of the empirical study took place using the methods of mathematical statistics – the Pearson's correlation coefficient using MS Excel (application of the CORREL function). The results of the study confirm the quantitative and qualitative indicators of the positive component dynamics of the formation of self-development for the professional growth of future teachers. It is proved that the use of a set of personal-projective tools contributes to the formation of professional self-development of the teacher, which is expressed by the components disclosed in the article. The application of our research: its results will help applicants for higher education (future teachers and lecturers of higher educational institutions of pedagogical specialties) consciously apply diagnostic, personal-projective technologies for the teacher’s self-development at the beginning of their activity. The study for the first time substantiates the essence of the concept and the components of self-development as a factor in the professional growth of future teachers; suggests a set of effective methods that have not been widely explained.

Highlights

The given study is due to the human needs of digital civilization to master the knowledge and skills so to apply them creatively in a rapidly changing world, as well as to multiply new, useful ones for their own professional growth
It is important that the needs, motives, knowledge, and ways of activity and the results of self-development of the specialist are considered as a whole, which is the scientific field of our study
The system-activity approach contributes to the creation of conditions for self-development of future teachers based on psychological analysis

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Introduction

The given study is due to the human needs of digital civilization to master the knowledge and skills so to apply them creatively in a rapidly changing world, as well as to multiply new, useful ones for their own professional growth. The scientific research is devoted to the disclosure of self-development for the professional growth of teachers at the beginning of their activity and testing of the proposed technological tools. We consider the concept of "self-development" as a self-creating factor in the development of values and motives, means of the activity expressed by the personal senses of the teacher in their profession. A survey of 454 students of pedagogical specialties revealed that 74% of respondents have difficulty in correlating the internal motives of self-development with professional activity, and 55% of higher education students had difficulty establishing communication with teachers, students, and parents. According to the results of our research, it was found out that certain aspects of self-development of students of pedagogical specialties in the scientific field are partially covered. Despite the scientific and practical demand in the scientific field, there is currently no comprehensive research on this topic

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