Conditions of preschool teachers’ formation in higher education institutions

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to provide readers with information on the actual problem of preschool teachers’ training — conditions of future preschool pedagogues’ successful learning in higher education institutions. The present state of the educational environment plays an important role in the process of pedagogues’ formation. The article focuses on the theoretical methodology of the problem, revealing several reviews of pedagogical and psychological research. The authors point out several reasons for students' successful or unsuccessful studying process in higher educational institutions, such as motivation, self-esteem, type of thinking, communication level, level of creative thinking, and kinds of relationships among students. Attention is drawn to analyzing these features, methods of evaluation, and results in calculations for them to improve the effectiveness of the educational process. A set of active and interactive methods and educational events for students aimed at improving the level of motivation, self-esteem, type of thinking, communication level, level of creative thinking, and kinds of relationships among students is proposed. An experiment was conducted and described in which a set of methods and educational events was tested. The results of the experiment showed a positive impact of the selected methods and activities in the preparation of preschool education specialists.