Sirenko A. Formation of Senior Preschool Children's Self-Confidence in Group Activities.

The work deals with the problem of formation of senior preschool children's self-confidence in group activities. By means of theoretical analysis, the essence of the concept "self-confidence" is specified, its interpretation with regard to senior preschoolers is presented; the educational potential of group activity in the context of the research is revealed. Criteria (social-emotional, information-communicative, activity-behavioral), corresponding indices, and levels of senior preschool children's self-confidence are defined (sufficient, middle, low). The process is designed and organizational-pedagogical conditions (creating a positive emotional atmosphere in the children team, stage-by-stage mastering by children of the main interaction types in group activity, development of children's ability to freely and variously use interaction types) of formation of senior preschool children's self-confidence in group activity are substantiated. The methods of formation of senior preschool children's self-confidence in group activity envisaging the realization of every organizational-pedagogical conditions has been developed and experimentally tested.