COMPONENTS OF THE INFORMATION CULTURE OF FUTURE TEACHERS

The article defines and characterizes the components of the information culture of future teachers. It has been established that the multifunctional personal and professionally significant quality of a teacher – information culture – includes such interrelated components as: cognitive (contains the active, creative nature of thinking, understanding of the modern scientific picture of the world, completeness and depth of subject knowledge, the ability to make independent decisions in various situations, interest in information activities using ICT tools), technological (provides computer and information literacy that corresponds to the modern level of development of computer science and computer technologies, the structure and quality of information resources, the ability to effectively use information sources of various nature), informational and communicative (includes the active use by future teachers of computer communications capabilities for interpersonal and collective interaction, the ability to use electronic computing and electronic intellectual systems), prognostic (includes a conscious choice of information sources by future teachers, anticipation of possible consequences of information activities, professional and social adaptation in a constantly updated information environment) and ergonomic (includes the ability to predict possible negative consequences of working with computer technology and the ability to effectively organize activities using ICT tools). The formation of individual components of the teacher’s information culture in the process of professional training involves the presence of a special organized educational environment, a certain system of pedagogical conditions for its functioning, and active interaction of all participants educational process and timely assessment of the level of its formation. The components are closely intertwined, interconnected and ultimately represent a systemic quality of the teacher’s personality, which is most intensively formed during professional training in the educational process of higher education institutions.