Future Teacher Training for Self- Education Activity in Physical Education at Elementary School

Abstract

Today, there is a growing need for specialists who are capable of creativity and constant self-study, which realizes teachers’ need for development. The research aims to direct future teachers’ activities to self-development and self- improvement of professional competencies in physical education through self-study. The control group consisted of 49 respondents, namely third and fourth-year students; the experimental group consisted of 52 respondents who expressed their desire to be trained for the specialized course “Self-study activities in physical education of a future teacher in elementary school”. The determination of training levels for self- development activities was carried out using a questionnaire. The training level of the control group increased up to 49.6%, which corresponds to the average level, and the experimental group – up to 80.1%, which corresponds to the high training level at the end of the experiment. The modern organizational forms of future teachers’ educational activity are defined and characterized. The particular place among them is occupied by the project method, the case study and portfolio. Considerable advantages of the noted forms of future teachers’ activity are skills and competence which they obtain to plan and predict; to use a variety of sources and media, in particular, ICT; to find and to develop independently educational material; to analyze, compare information and facts, argue their opinions; to be responsible, make decisions.