ОСОБИСТІСНО-ПРОФЕСІЙНЕ СТАНОВЛЕННЯ МАЙБУТНЬОГО ВЧИТЕЛЯ ФІЗИЧНОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ В ПРОЦЕСІ ПОЗААУДИТОРНОЇ РОБОТИ

The article traces the professional and pedagogical formation of future physical education teachers and the role of extracurricular work in pedagogical disciplines, in particular, pedagogical competitions, which are first held in academic groups, then at faculties. At the final university-wide competition, participants demonstrate examples of their own pedagogical creativity. Competitions are an important means of pedagogical support for not only professional but also personal growth of students, and have a powerful motivational and stimulating potential. All contestants have the opportunity to position themselves as teachers, realize and demonstrate their creative ideas. Every year, the best students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports took part in the pedagogical skills competition and, as a rule, became winners. The article presents feedback on the role, significance and aftermath of the pedagogical mastery contest in determining and further developing their personal and professional trajectory The information received from the contestants clearly indicates that for many of them the contest was a kind of start to their personal and professional development. Close ties are maintained with many graduates who continue their pedagogical path in the following forms: first, these are lively individual connections, as many of them continued their studies in master's and postgraduate programs; second, almost every year there are meetings with graduates of previous years, which make it possible to trace the individual trajectory of personal and professional development; third, constant contact with participants of the pedagogical skills competition of different years, some of whom work as teachers of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports. The main task of the competition is to model and test individual creative didactic and educational projects prepared by future specialists under the guidance of the department's teachers, which contributes to the creative self-realization of future teachers. Such projects motivate students to professional self-improvement, develop pedagogical thinking and creative abilities, including active creative search, help to better understand the theory and connect it with practice, gain experience in speaking to different audiences. The use of educational and upbringing potential of extracurricular work, variety of its forms aimed at co-creation of students with teachers, in combination with the implementation of other organizational and pedagogical conditions ensures the systemic nature of professional development of future teachers.