Diagnostics of development of creativity at future educators of children of preschool age

Abstract

Modern global changes related to rapid scientific and technological progress, change in living standards, revision of standards of life, set the task of higher education for the formation of a person with developed creative abilities, the desire for constant self-education, creativity. Developing of creative personality traits is of fundamental importance in meeting the challenges of economic development. New ideas, innovation and ingenuity in the development of products and services are increasingly important to the economic competitiveness of companies, and of countries. The development of the future educator as a creative individual is important because it is from the creative potential of teachers that the creative development of the pupils depends. For a creative person, such personal qualities are important that allow you to operate effectively in situations of uncertainty, go beyond the predictable, show spontaneity. A creative person has a developed intellect that allows you to create something new, previously unknown. Important for a creative person is also activity, an understanding of the value of creativity and development, the desire to create something new, change oneself and change the world around oneself. According to our impression, the creativity of future educators of preschool children is the quality of the individual, which is based on the needs for self-actualization, characterized by flexibility and originality of thinking and manifested in the ability to creative activity. The author of the article proposed the structure of creativity of future educators, which consists of the following components: motivational, emotional and cognitive, reflective. A diagnostic methodology was selected to determine the degree of development of the components of creativity of future educators and an ascertaining experiment was conducted to determine the level develop the creativity of students. A study of the components of creativity of future educators showed the following problems: low self -esteem of the creative abilities of students; undeveloped creative thinking in categories of fluency, flexibility, originality. Students showed low and medium results; noted a weak understanding of the artistic image. The weak development of artistic perception, the lack of a theoretical basis make it impossible to understand the of style and artistic manner of a work of art. We intend to carry out further work on the development of students’ creativity in the study of the subject of «The Basics of Fine Arts».