The formation of the students‘ professional competencies of physical education teacher applying health-preserving learning technologies

Abstract

The article proves that one of the conditions for achieving the putpose of the physical education teacher professional competencies formation is the activity whuvh develops ythe idea of health introduving health-preserving technologies into the educational process. In the modern realities, the training of the future physical education teachers is gradually transferring fromeducational and disciplinary to person-centered form of learning. This helps to create the preconditions for pedagogical creativity of future teachers and to increase their competitiveness in future professional activities. The most effective means of forming professionalism is education, and high professionalism is the key to succeedin socially significant activities. Pedagogical skills are based on the high professional level of the teacher, one’s behavior norms and pedagogical experience, and the necessary conditions for pedagogical skills are the teacher’s humanistic position and professionally significant personal qualities.The aimof the arficle is to substantiate the expediency of the students’ professional competencies formation applying health-preserving learning technologies. The study of the students’ basic knowledge of the compulsory educational component showed the difference between their self-assessmemt and teacher's evaluation. The results analysis shows that out of 46 students, 8.7 % of the students received a high level of knowledge, 39.1 % - medium, 32.6% - low, and 19.6 % - poor. Only 15.2 % ofstudents know the methodology of conducting a physical education class at school atthehigh methodological level, 52.3 % have an average level of proficiency, 30.3 % have a low level of proficiency, and 2.2 % dono tha vesufficient know ledge and skills. It has been proved that not all the students are familiar with modern physical culture and health-improving technologies, as indicated by 6.5 of students and 17.4 % of teachers. Among the surveyed respondents, 17.3 % have high professional competencies, 50.0 % have professional competencies developed at the middle level, 28.3 % - at the low level, and only 4.4 % have not mastered the professional competencies of a physical education teacher. In general, 95.6 % of students are ready to work as a physical education teacher at school. The results of the experimental works howed the positive dynamics of the formation of professional competence (at the meddle an dhigh levels) throughtheuse of health-preserving learningte chnologies.