Application of modern innovative educational technologies in the professional activity of primary school teachers

The article deals with the innovative phenomenon in the modern educational process, as well as analyses the concepts of ‘innovation’, ‘learning technology’ and ‘innovative learning technology’. It outlines the characteristics of innovative education and emphasises the importance of its implementation in the context of rapid development of modern society. The article describes in detail the characteristics and content of innovative teaching technologies, as well as their convenience for implementation in the practice of primary education. The classification of innovative teaching technologies is carried out and the characteristics of modern educational technologies used in the educational process in primary schools are confirmed. The main directions of innovative activity of primary school teachers are studied, and traditional methods are compared with their modernised versions. The objective acceleration of scientific, technological and social progress, as well as the crisis phenomena in the economy, ecology, demography and politics that arise in the modern world, inevitably affect the education system. The concept of modernisation of Ukrainian education sets new social requirements for the school system. A general education school should create an integral system of universal knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as provide students with the experience of independent activity and personal responsibility that determines the modern quality of educational content. Improving the quality of education should not be achieved by placing additional workload on students, but by improving the forms and methods of teaching, selecting the content of education and introducing educational technologies that focus not only on the transfer of ready- made knowledge but also on the formation of a set of personal qualities of students. In the process of developing the national education system, a special role is played by the innovative activity of general education institutions. It is characterised by systematic experimentation, testing and implementation of innovations in the educational process. The introduction of innovative teaching technologies based on modern methodological principles, didactic principles and psychological and pedagogical theories contributes to the development of active and creative approaches to learning.