Polyakova I. The development of future primary school teachers’ creative abilities in the process of professional training.

Matter: the process of special training of future teachers of primary school; Aim: to create and both theoretically and practically analyze technologies of creative abilities development in future teachers of primary school during the process of special training; Methods: analysis of philosophical, pedagogical, psychological, special literature; synthesis and summarization of pedagogical experience; comparison of existing approaches to creative abilities development in professionals; modeling of pedagogical processes; surveys, talks, observation, expert evaluation, summarizing of independent characteristics; pedagogical experiment; methods of mathematical statistics; Novelty: a new technology of creative abilities development of future primary school teachers has been developed, theoretically explained and experimentally proved; a complex of methodological instruments, integrated tasks, creative technologies, methodological instructions based on personal-oriented approach that has influence on creative abilities of future teachers and improves professional training; the essence of the notion “creative abilities” as a set of certain individual personal abilities has been specified by directing efforts to pedagogical process optimization, finding unlimited ways of problem solving, a possibility to overcome boundaries of standard situations in educational process in higher establishments; the results can be used in work of school teachers, tutors of qualification improvement, students when learning psychological and pedagogical courses, as for designing books and tutorials; field: theory and methodology of professional education.