The current state of the quality of practical training of future teachers and the prospects for its improvement

Based on the study of the future teachers’ practical training quality, the article analyzes difficulties faced by young teachers at the beginning of their pedagogical career. The author examines the level of the teachers’ satisfaction with their pedagogical skills, their employers’ opinion on the improvement of pedagogical education. The goal of the research is to study teachers’ practical training quality and prospects of its improvement. A set of scientific research methods was used, presented by a theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature; questioning of practitioners of educational organizations, graduate students of pedagogical education and young teachers; the method of expert assessments used in discussions of the problems of the quality of practical training and prospects for its improvement; analysis of primary statistics. Results of the experiment research have confirmed the hypothesis about the difference between the levels of satisfaction with the practical training quality in each category of respondents. Opinions of employers, young teachers, and students have some common points. For example, all of them have noticed deficiency of skills tied to preparation of the school documents, use of knowledge of educational legal acts in the professional activity. Different ideas of students and young teachers about the professional activity are the reason for the difference. The article represents the main directions of improvement of the practical training quality: priority of the teaching practice as a form of practical training; involvement of practitioners (representatives of employers) in the creation and implementation of basic professional educational programs; the inclusion of practice-oriented technologies in the process of training a future teacher; individualization of the educational trajectory. Results of the research represented in the article may be used in the main professional education programs, additional education programs aimed at getting teaching skills. Changes to the basic educational programs were made at the stage of their updating and affected the following aspects: an extensive list of practice-oriented disciplines was included in the curricula; the content of disciplines and the logic of building educational and industrial practices aimed at practical training have been changed; the formation of digital competencies of future teachers is carried out when mastering the content of several elective disciplines. The allocation of the so-called “Core of Pedagogical Education” in the basic professional educational programs made it possible to to implement the principle of unity of subject, methodological and psychological-pedagogical training in the field of education, as well as to ensure uniform requirements for the content of educational programs of various directions, to the results and conditions of the implementation of pedagogical education programs.

pedagogical education, practical training, satisfaction with the training quality