PROFESSIONAL TEACHER TRAINING IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION OF EDUCATION

The article deals with the actual problem of preparing students for professional pedagogical activity in the conditions of modern challenges. The article analyzes the current trends in the introduction of digital technologies in the educational process of natural science education. The idea of introducing digital technologies, technical means of teaching as auxiliary tools for the professional training of a natural science teacher is considered, in connection with an urgent problem that is the search for methodological techniques increasing the motivation of students as future teachers of environmental activities, within the development of their ecological culture. The possibility of integrating traditional pedagogical and information technologies in order to form a new information environment necessary for the normal functioning of the Federal State Educational System is considered. A factual example shows the significant impact of augmented reality on the quality of biological education. At the same time, attention is focused on the necessity of activating the cognitive process in the training of future teachers, which is based on the students’ motivation level increasing, developing interest in practical pedagogical, research activities in the learning process, which contributes to the formation of appropriate competencies. The issues of improving the training of students studying in pedagogical specialties on the basis of the development of technological and methodological competence of students – future biology teachers of a modern school are revealed. At the same time, it is noted that students have insufficiently formed the basic values that should be inherent in a pedagogical employee admitted to the process of forming a holistic worldview in a child. The article analyzes the didactic possibilities of the digital educational environment in the educational process in biology, the advantages and disadvantages of mobile learning in the system of modern biological education. Based on the improvement of the methodological system of the organization of individual and group project activities in teaching biology, the focus of modern education on providing the most favorable conditions for students in order to master the knowledge of the discipline and improve the quality of the educational process is considered.