Pedagogical principles of professional training of future foreign language teachers in higher education institutions

Abstract

In the article the authors substantiate the relevance of the study of pedagogical principles of professional training of future foreign language teachers in higher education institutions (HEIs). It is emphasized that the institutionalization of the processes of renewal of higher education institutions is carried out in European and domestic regulations; generalization of previous experience is done in monographs, textbooks and manuals of Ukrainian and foreign scholars, which reveal the need for advanced training of future foreign language teachers in connection with institutional and structural changes in the labor market. In general, this applies to the purpose, content, technologies of teaching and learning, management of higher professional education for a specific category of pedagogical staff. As the main trends of domestic educational theory and practice the competence educational paradigm, the need to harmonize the standards of professional activities and standards of professional education, the modelling of modular educational programmes are considered. It was determined the pedagogical content of integral competence of future foreign language teachers and its components; the importance of complete self-determination of the applicant of higher education is emphasized: independent goal-setting, inclusion of one’s capabilities as significant conditions in the model of goal realization, conscious organization of one’s own life and direction of one’s own development. The main attention is paid to the content of professional training according to pedagogical approaches, patterns and principles of selection of educational content, organization of the educational process). The characteristic of modern technologies of educational process organization of future foreign language teachers’ training is defined as perspective.