Training Intending Technologies Teachers for Forming Middle School Students Artistic and Technical Skills

In the course of the research, pedagogical conditions of training intending teachers of technologies for forming artistic and technical skills of middle school students were substantiated. They envisage intensification of interdisciplinary links in the process of forming artistic and technical skills of intending teachers of technology, creating the artistic and creative educational environment on the basis of intersubject connections of the teacher and students, introducing the optional course “Fundamentals of artistic and technical creativity”. The comparative analysis of the results of the study at the beginning and at the end of the experiment showed the effectiveness of the identified pedagogical conditions, the introduction of which into the educational process helped to increase the level of readiness of intending teachers of technologies for forming artistic and technical skills in middle school students. The study of the state of professional training of intending technologies teachers for forming middle school students artistic and technical skills was conducted. Analysis of the source base revealed that the problem identified in pedagogical theory and practice was not developed and was not the subject of the special research. On the basis of the critical analysis of the features of training intending technologies teachers for creative project-technological activity, stages of its implementing and a number of scientific works, the meaning of the concept of “artistic and technical skills” was revealed. Scientific search helped to highlight a number of interrelated components in the structure of technology teachers' readiness for forming artistic and technical skills of middle school students: motivational, cognitive, operational, reflexive; criteria of forming the investigated quality, their indicators; levels of forming (initial, intermediate, sufficient, high) of the designated readiness.