In the dissertation, according to the analysis of domestic and foreign experience of distance education, taking into account the principles of competenсe-based approach as the current key educational paradigm, conceptual New Ukrainian school requirements and general tendencies of educational informatization, the ways of developing primary school teachers’ training to use distance learning tools are distinguished.
The scientific novelty of the received results is that, for the first time, the structural and functional model of developing primary school teachers’ readiness to use the distance learning tools has been developed; pedagogical conditions for implementing the developed model (providing future primary school teachers with the essential complex of knowledge and skills to work in the distance environment and provide pedagogical control upon this process; combining distance learning technologies with traditional classroom methods of teaching, which allows to implement mixed learning principles; the encouragement of future primary school teachers to create and use their own multimedia visual tools and infographics) are defined, proved, and checked; we have specified the theoretical concepts of distance learning (,,distance education”, ,,electronic learning”, ,,mobile learning”, ,,mixed learning”, etc.); we have clarified the component structure of primary school teachers’ readiness to use the distance learning tools in the unity of motivative, cognitive, and operative factors, moreover, the criteria, indicators and levels of developing a specified pedagogical phenomenon; we have further developed the diagnostical tools of studying the primary school teachers’ readiness to use the distance learning tools.
The practical significance of the research is to improve the content of primary school teachers’ training by implementing the special course ,,The Technologies of Distance Learning in the Process of Teaching Primary School Subjects”, supported by the appropriate Moodle course of ,,Donbas State Pedagogical University” and also by the scientific methodological manual ,,The Organization of Activities with Distance Courses of Primary School Subjects ” for the students of speciality 013 Primary education who are studying to gain the bachelor degree; improvement and diversification of practical methods of distance training of future primary school teachers.
