Kropyvka O. Training of future natural sciences teachers for the organization of health and safety of high school students

The paper investigates professional training of future natural sciences teachers for ensuring health and safety of high school students and the ways of its improvement. The rationale of the study is defined by the current requirements to the training of future natural sciences teachers in matters of health and safety and organization of healthy studying environment in the view of challenges and dangers faced by the society. The analysis of theoretical works on the topic showed contradictions between: - The inevitable increase in the number of dangers and unreadiness of high school students to respond to them in a right way; - The new increased requirements to the qualification level of future natural sciences teachers and the absence of grounded and tested pedagogical conditions for training students for the organization of health and safety of high school students; - The great potential of the system of higher pedagogical education and the fragmentary character of the content of curricula for training future natural sciences teachers for the organization of safety of high school students; - The criteria for the readiness of future natural sciences teachers to organize the health and safety of high school students in tough modern challenges and the absence of a scientifically grounded model of such training in the educational processes of the higher education institutions.