Didactic Regularities, Principles and Methods of Preparing Prospective Primary School Teachers to Pedagogical Activity

Abstract

Nowadays modern primary schools should significantly improve both the content of education for younger students and the forms of teaching. It occurs due to the social demand of society to train the students ready to participate in the life of their country, which is rapidly developing in the fields of science, technology and culture. Such requirements regarding the improvement of primary education standards are reflected in the Concept of implementation of the state policy of general secondary education reform “New Ukrainian School” for the period up to 2029. This work is an attempt to present one of the possible options for solving the modern problems of primary school development. Purpose. To determine the theoretical and practical content of training prospective primary school teachers for their professional activity. Methods. Study and analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on thetopic of the research, generalization of work experience of scholars-philologists, pedagogues and specialists in various subject areas. Results. The authors have analyzed and specified psychological and pedagogical components of prospective primary school teachers’ professional competency. One of thepedagogical competency components, namely, didactic competency has been revealed in detail. Thus, the didactic regularities of organizing the primary school students’ teaching process have been grounded Conclusion. The principles of organizing the teaching process of primary school pupils are the following: computer presentation and activation of the material under study; gaming interaction of students in the process of exchanging information received at the lessons; solving tasks of the practical knowledge application in the everyday environment. The methods of implementation of these principles are functional-based and activity-based, gaming, verbal, visual, and multimedia.