Training future educators in using innovative technologies in preschool educational institutions

Abstract

The article reveals the problem connected with the training aspects of the future educators in using innovative technologies in preschool educational institutions. It is proved that innovations reflect the dynamics of modern life in all its diversity of interconnections and inconsistencies, provide a qualitative increase in efficiency, permeate all areas of society, help to uncover the logic of human development, contribute to the determination and synthesis of ideological and methodological aspects; they are an integral part of an individual’s understanding of his / her life experience, they are the final results of human intellectual activities (fantasy, the creative process, discoveries, inventions and rationalization). The preparedness of the future educators for using innovative technologies in the pedagogical process of preschool educational institutions is a complex dynamic mental unity that expresses a set of intellectual, motivational, activity-centred and emotional-volitional components of the psyche. The components (motivational and value-oriented, cognitive, operational and activity-centred), indicators and levels (insufficient, sufficient, high) of the future educators’ preparedness to use innovative technologies in the pedagogical process of preschool educational institutions are defined. The diagnostics of the future educators’ proficiency level of their preparedness to apply innovative technologies in the pedagogical process of preschool educational institutions has been carried out. A system of work aimed at training the future educators in using innovative technologies in the pedagogical process of preschool educational institutions has been proposed. The main emphasis in the implementation of the content of the future educators’ training in using innovative technologies in the educational process of preschool educational institutions was made within the study of the educational discipline «Pedagogical creativity». The classes in the experimental group provided students with the consolidation of theoretical knowledge, the development of their skills and experience in the use of innovative technologies. The system of work aimed at training the future educators in using innovative technologies in the pedagogical process of preschool educational institutions presupposed the creation of conditions close to real educational activities in preschool educational institutions. It has been proved that the developed system of work aimed at training the future educators in applying innovative technologies in the pedagogical process of preschool educational institutions is effective. The analysis of the problem under study made it possible to draw conclusions about the feasibility of the future educators’ training in using innovative technologies in the educational process of preschool educational institutions.