Andriievska V. Theoretical and Methodological Bases of Training primary school teachers to use the ICT in professional activities.

The thesis is devoted to the problem of training future primary school teachers to use ICT in their professional activities. The state of the development of the problem of training future primary school teachers to use ICT in their professional activities is analyzed. The stages of primary school computerization (the experimental stage of introducing a propaedeutic course of computer science; the stage of integrating ICT into the process of teaching basic primary school subjects; the stage at which the subject “Computer Science” became an independent primary school subject; the stage of a comprehensive use of ICT during the educational process within all educational branches) are studied. The content of a teacher's ICT training at each of these stages is described. On the basis of the analysis of the Concept of Pedagogical Education Development, the Concept of the New Ukrainian School, the new State Standards for Primary Education it has been shown that the innovative trend of using ICT in the professional activities of primary school teachers is the orientation towards the formation of qualitatively new pupils’ skills that are universal abilities aimed at a person’s self-development and self-improvement, at ensuring his or her success in further learning in the information society – meta-subject ICT skills. The essence, types of pupils’ meta-subject skills (information and analytical skills, instrumental skills, behavioural skills in the digital world, communicative skills) are revealed. The stages of the formation of pupils’ meta-subject ICT skills (the propaedeutic stage, which covers the period of a child’s studying in the first form; the practical stage – the period of studying in the second and third forms, the perspective stage – the period of studying in the fourth form) as well as the methods and means of their formation are specified. Field – pedagogy.