Abstract:
Today, there is a growing need for specialists who are
capable of creativity and constant self-study, which realizes
teachers’ need for development. The research aims to direct
future teachers’ activities to self-development and self-
improvement of professional competencies in physical education
through self-study. The control group consisted of 49
respondents, namely third and fourth-year students; the
experimental group consisted of 52 respondents who expressed
their desire to be trained for the specialized course “Self-study
activities in physical education of a future teacher in elementary
school”. The determination of training levels for self-
development activities was carried out using a questionnaire. The
training level of the control group increased up to 49.6%, which
corresponds to the average level, and the experimental group –
up to 80.1%, which corresponds to the high training level at the
end of the experiment. The modern organizational forms of
future teachers’ educational activity are defined and
characterized. The particular place among them is occupied by
the project method, the case study and portfolio. Considerable
advantages of the noted forms of future teachers’ activity are
skills and competence which they obtain to plan and predict; to
use a variety of sources and media, in particular, ICT; to find and
to develop independently educational material; to analyze,
compare information and facts, argue their opinions; to be
responsible, make decisions.
