The authors of the article consider the importance of cooperation skills as some of soft skills of a person. The significance of developing these skills from preschool age on is emphasized. The influence of children's experimentation on their all-round development and readiness of senior preschool children to study at school is considered. The interrelation between group activities in the process of experimentation and the development of senior preschoolers’ cooperation skills is shown. Based on the observation of children's activities in the process of experimentation, the educator’s participation in this process and the survey of senior preschoolers and educators reveal the aspects of the organization of children’s group activities that have to be improved. The peculiarities of the educator's participation at all stages of the experiment done by senior preschool children in groups are analyzed – during the goal setting, discussion of the experimental procedure, summarizing, as well as during the verbal report on the results of the experiment. Emphasis is placed on the fact that it is important to organize experimentation centres at preschool institutions, which will allow children to freely experiment and form a team to carry out search activities. The psychological and pedagogical conditions for the children's experimentation in groups being organized at preschool institutions by educators for the successful formation of senior preschoolers’ cooperation skills are formulated.
Modernization of the modern primary education system of Ukraine is aimed at developing creative abilities of primary school students. Development of the creative abilities is one of the components of soft skills of an individual, they affect the successful establishment in society. A creative person is able to generate new ideas, think original, make non-standard decisions, confidently achieve their goals. Creativity is an integrative multicomponent quality that covers various areas of students’ activity. Due to the digitalization of the educational process, information and communication technologies are being rapidly implemented in primary school. Accordingly, the authors of the article analyzed the features of the use of innovative technology BYOD ("bring your own device") for the development of creative abilities of students, identified its positive aspects, outlined ways to use it by teachers. The purpose of the article is to reveal the educational potential of BYOD technology for the development of creative abilities of junior schoolchildren. An experimental study was conducted, the respondents of which were students of primary school in Vinnytsia region and determined the leading level of development of their creative abilities. The results of lessons observation in primary school on the use of innovative technologies for the formation of creative abilities of primary school students are analyzed. The results of the survey of primary school teachers on the use of innovative BYOD technology in the educational process are presented. It is proved that the use of smartphones in primary school lessons promotes the development of creative abilities of primary school children and their imagination, and change of the educational vector of primary school from reproductive learning to creative understanding of information and competent growth (formation of digital competence and organization of students’ independent research).
The aim of this research was to study future-teacher soft skills development in the context of Ukraine’s entry into the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The development of soft skills is categorized as a separate direction of adaptation to the modern globalized professional environment. The main research question related to how to organize the educational process advantageously for the development of both soft and hard skills, as the former are often ignored in higher education institutions (HEIs). The research objectives were achieved using content analysis, Stapel scale and open-ended surveys, in-depth interviewing, computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), “conferences of ideas”, and “collective notebooks”. The results of the experiment show that a 0% indicator for unsatisfactory level of soft skills development was achieved. Instead, the statistically and qualitatively achieved level of soft skills shifted, compared to the results of detailed primary diagnostics, towards satisfactory (10.7%), good (42.9%), high (32.2%), and advanced (14.2%) levels. Data confirm the effectiveness of the combination of the standalone subject model and embedded model algorithm for teacher soft skills development. Empirical research demonstrated the possibility of the dynamic development of soft skills in a relatively short (three-year) period as a result of targeted influence on a number of specific skills within the general concept. The guarantor of success in the soft skills development program is the conscious and cohesive work of the teaching staff, as well as an environment of cooperation with motivated students. Expanded employment opportunities are the main motivation driving force in this case.
The ecological crisis on a global scale (melting glaciers, explosions at nuclear power plants, pollution of rivers, seas, deforestation, harmful emissions into the atmosphere) requires radical changes in the process of its elimination. Volitional actions related to the cleansing, restoration and preservation of the natural environment are not enough, much emphasis is placed on educating a humane, environmentally conscious population capable of establishing harmonious relations with the natural environment. That is why higher education institutions face an important task – to form the environmental competence of future primary school teachers, to prepare students for the organization of environmental activities in working with younger students as a basis for shaping their environmental worldview. The article analyzes the theoretical foundations of the formation of environmental competence of future teachers, focuses on important summits, meetings, conferences, which rapidly and purposefully promote the preservation of the natural environment, stimulate the education of environmentally conscious younger generation. The aim of the article is to conduct an experimental study and establish the levels of formation of environmental competence of future teachers, based on its results to identify a model of formation of environmental competence of future teachers of higher education. In the course of the research we have singled out the main components (motivational, cognitive, activity, reflexive) of the formation of ecological competence of future teachers, as well as the corresponding criteria and levels. We conducted an experimental study to establish the level of environmental competence of future teachers among the leading pedagogical institutions of Ukraine: Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, Kamianets-Podilskyi National Ivan Ohiienko University and T.N. Shevchenko National University "Chernihiv Colehium". The study made it possible to complete the model of formation of environmental competence of future primary school teachers by means of environmental activities (stages of implementation, priorities, pedagogical conditions, tools, forms). The study outlined new areas for further work.
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