Formation of the Operational Skills of Using Information and Communication Technologies in the Professional Activity of a Future Pedagogue

This article highlights the issue of forming future preschool teachers’ competence in using information and communication technologies in their professional activity, particularly creating their operational skills. This paper presents the results of diagnosing the peculiarities of developing functional skills to use information and communication technologies in the professional activity of the future preschool education teacher. The article aimed to highlight the process and results of the research on the formation of operational skills in the use of information and communication technologies in the professional activity of future preschool education teachers in higher educational institutions. The analysis was carried out before and after classes on the subject “Information and communication technologies in preschool education.” The authors described the levels of developing operational skills of using information and communication technologies in professional activity of the future preschool education teacher as sufficient, intermediate, and low. They also offered and introduced the methods of forming operational skills using information and communication technologies in professional activity of the future preschool education teacher. Implementing these methods facilitated the formation of the operational component of future preschool education teachers’ competence in using information and communication technologies in the professional activity. A statistical study based on the multifunctional criterion of agreement χ2 – Pearson proved that the indicators of the formation of future preschool education teachers’ functional skills of using information and communication technologies in professional activity before and after classes on “Information and communication technologies in preschool education” differ significantly.