PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE EDUCATORS IN THE PROCESS OF STUDYING THE EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT “FAMILY AND SOCIAL EDUCATION OF PRESCHOOLERS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES”

The relevance of the research issue is due to the updating of the content of modern preschool and professional education, European integration processes in the educational system of Ukraine, society’s demand for educators of early and preschool children who are not only able to fulfill the duties assigned to them at a high professional level, comprehensively form the personality of a preschool child age, but also to find non-standard, efficient methods and ways of solving educational tasks, drawing ideas and innovations from foreign pedagogical thought and practice. The purpose of the research is to reveal the impact of the specifics of the author’s method of teaching the educational course “Family and Social Education of Preschoolers in Foreign Countries” on the quality of training of specialists in the preschool field at the bachelor’s level of education and qualification. The article presents the experience of teaching this educational component to students majoring in preschool education at Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University. The course content in the professional formation of the future educator of early and preschool children, which consists of two modules, is revealed. The program learning outcomes that future specialists majoring in preschool education should master while studying the specified course are named. In the process of mastering the educational component, students analyze the state of development of preschool education in Ukraine and in foreign countries, compare the assets of world pedagogical thought and practice with domestic ones, identify typical and distinctive features, the specifics of the educational process and development of early and preschool children, transform international pedagogical experience into modern educational space of a preschool education institution, form the ability to create their personal-oriented style of educational activity, use the achievements of foreign pedagogical theory and educational practice to improve domestic preschool education. Attention is focused on the introduction of active forms of the educational process organization in the institution of higher education (lecture-visualization, lecture with multimedia support) and the use of interactive learning tools and methods of monitoring educational and cognitive activities in the process of professional training of bachelors majoring in the specialty 012 Preschool Education.