CONTENT AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHER TRAINING IN EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS IN RUSSIA

Abstract

Modern trends in education development make robotics training relevant and significant for teachers ofcomputer science, technology, physics, elementary grades, teachers of additional and preschool education. The purpose of this study is to analyze the opportunities for obtaining and content of pedagogical education in the field of educational robotics inrussia based on higher educational institutions. 

Based on the study of basic educational programs and curricula for training future teachers ofcomputer science, technology, and elementary education at leading pedagogical universities inrussia, the conclusion is made that there is an absence or insignificance of robotics disciplines in them, which naturally leads to the unreadiness of graduates to integrate robotics into their future professional activities. In the article the results of the evaluation of the degree of interest and readiness of students – future teachers to obtain additional education in robotics at the stage of receiving basic education in the chosen profile are presented and interpreted. 

The experience of implementing the professional retraining program «Pedagogy of Supplementary Education (Robotics)» at Ivanovo State University, in the mastering of which the students are actively involved, is described. The additional qualification of students allows the university to integrate them smoothly into pedagogical activity through the system of supplementary education for schoolchildren at the stage of university education.