Mechanisms for ensuring the quality of professional training for future primary education specialists

The article provides a systematic analysis of scientific sources, clarifies the categorical apparatus of the study, and characterises the dominant theoretical approaches to interpreting the quality of education through the prism of ontological, axiological, conceptual, and managerial dimensions. The author’s definition of the concept of «quality of professional training of future primary school teachers» is proposed, its essence and content characteristics are clarified. It is emphasised that the final result of professional training is the formed professional competence of graduates of higher education institutions. The structural components of the system for ensuring the quality of professional training of teaching staff are identified, which include: quality of content (content), quality of process (procedural), quality of resources (resource), quality of management (managerial), quality of results (effective). Within these components, the corresponding mechanisms that contribute to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the professional training of future primary school teachers are classified. These mechanisms include: mechanisms for ensuring the quality of the content component of training, mechanisms for ensuring the quality of the organisation of the educational process, mechanisms for ensuring the quality of resource provision, mechanisms for ensuring the quality of management, as well as mechanisms for ensuring the quality of the results of professional training of higher education students. It is noted that in the context of transformational processes in the field of higher pedagogical education, each of the proposed mechanisms for ensuring the quality of professional training of future primary school teachers is theoretically sound and appropriate. Their application contributes to the systematic updating of the content, organisation and effectiveness of the educational process, ensures that professional training meets modern requirements for pedagogical activity and social expectations regarding the quality of higher education.