DISTANCE LEARNING OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERSAS A PREREQUISITE OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTTHROUGHOUT LIFE

摘要

The article demonstrates the expediency and ways of organizing distance training offuture primary school teachers: forming theoretical knowledge and skills basis in students for themastery and effective use of computer devices and information and communication technologiesin professional activities and the fundamentals of information culture, information andcommunication competence; establishing a foundation for further mastery of teaching curriculumand technologies of distance learning in the area of primary education; as well as implementing theelectronic learning courses Modern Information Technologies of Learning and The Fundamentalsof Distance Learning in Primary School (developed at LMS Moodle). It is noted that the distancetraining of a future primary school teacher is an interdisciplinary pedagogic category thatcharacterizes the degree of individualization, intensity and controllability, is subjected to the goalsof the professional development of independent cognitive activities of teachers based oninformation and communication technology means with the indirect interaction (synchronous andasynchronous) with learning process participants located remotely from one another, under thesupervision of a tutor. The readiness of the future primary school teacher to distance learning inthe system of pedagogical education as an integral property of the individual, reflecting thecomprehensive interaction of the motivational and value, cognitive and operational components, isdetermined. An experimental study was carried out; its results showed that the implementation ofsuch distance courses into the educational process of experimental groups enabled a positivedynamics of the levels of future primary school teachers’ readiness to develop their ownvocational and pedagogical competence in the conditions of distance learning. In the experimentalgroups of future primary school teachers compared with the control ones, the increase in theindicators of high readiness for distance learning was observed.