The thesis examines the problem of future primary school teachers’ readiness formation for project technology application in professional activity at the theoretical and practical levels.
The peculiarities of the professional training of future primary school teachers in higher education institutions of Ukraine and abroad have been clarified, in particular, in the context of readiness formation for project technology application in professional activity.
The professional training of future primary school teachers is interpreted as the process of general and special (professional) competencies formation that are necessary for effective performance of professional activity in primary school.
The essence of the project method, project technology, its history, features, advantages and disadvantages, and the implementation algorithm in the educational process of primary school is analyzed in the work.
Project technology is defined as an innovative learning technology that successfully combines theoretical and practical learning, develops students’ creative abilities and involves the creation of an original final product. The stages of technology implementation consist of preparatory work, planning, execution, presentation and evaluation of the project.
Formation model of future primary school teachers' readiness for the project technology application in professional activity was developed and theoretically substantiated in the thesis. The structure of the model is represented by the following blocks: theoretical and conceptual (it outlines the purpose and the task of future primary school teachers training for project technology application, the training strategy for future primary school teachers to use project technology, leading approaches, principles of learning); contextual (determines the content of future primary school teachers training for the project technology application in professional activity); procedural-acting (reveals the main methods and forms of future primary school teachers training for the project technology application); result-evaluative (determines control methods, levels of future primary school teachers’ readiness for the project technology application, predicts the result of such training).
As a result of the future primary school teachers training for the project technology application, their readiness for this type of activity was determined. The readiness of future primary school teachers for the project technology application in their work is interpreted as an integrative personal quality aimed at effective project technology application in professional activity at primary school. Three components of this readiness are singled out: motivational (a positive attitude towards pedagogical activities in general and the use of projects in the educational process in particular, the presence of motivation to use project technology in the education of schoolchildren, the desire to master the technology of project activity); contextual (learners acquaintance with the essence and meaning of educational projects, the main stages of the project technology and features of its implementation in primary school); activity component (the ability to organize project activities of schoolchildren, to carry out independently educational projects and to select interesting educational projects for primary schoolchildren in order to form the necessary competencies in them).
During the pedagogical experiment, the effectiveness of the pedagogical conditions determined in the work was proven, which confirmed the research hypothesis, according to which the quality of future primary school teachers training will significantly increase if the pedagogical conditions are implemented, that are aimed at the readiness forming of future specialists to use project technology in their professional activity.
A diagnostic toolkit was developed to determine each of the criteria for the future primary school teachers’ readiness to use the project technology in their professional activity. The essence, stages and results of the pedagogical experiment are highlighted.
