Tags:continuous professional training, ICT-competence and informativeness of education
Abstract:
The article substantiates the relevance of intensifying the process of continuous training of foreign language teachers following Ukraine’s informatization of the modern education system. The authors present the concept of reformatting the foreign language professional training of a modern foreign language teacher who will be competitive in the new Ukrainian school. It has been pointed out that one of the determining conditions for the implementation of practical strategic tasks of education modernisation is the training of future foreign language teachers. Due to the expansion of the information space in the system of continuous education, a competency-based approach to the professional development of future teachers of any speciality, including the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), is becoming increasingly important. The authors cover modern approaches to the formation of foreign language training of future foreign language teachers utilizing blended learning, e-learning, m-learning, u-learning, flipped learning, eTwinning, "Online Driver" model scheme and others. The stages of training future Foreign Language teachers in Ukrainian higher education institutions are characterized and the form of monitoring the formation of ICT competence of research participants using the certified Digital Literacy course is presented. The study was conducted within the framework of the Erasmus + KA2 National Project on "Development of foreign language teacher training capacity as a way to implement multilingual education and European integration of Ukraine" (610427-EPP-1-2019-1-EE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), which was implemented at Zaporizhzhia National University. The necessity of developing modern information resources for organizing a system of advanced training of foreign language teachers in comprehensive schools and higher institutions is substantiated.
Informatization of Continuous Professional Training of a Foreign Language Teacher