ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the theoretical substantiation, development and experimental
verification of the effectiveness of the organizational and methodological conditions of the environmental
training of the future teacher of labor education and technology for the purpose of forming his
environmental competence. The areas of ecological training of future teachers are defined as: formation
of environmental consciousness among students, environmentalization of the content of professional
disciplines, students' study of ecological education technologies, organization of ecological labor
activities of students during lectures, practical classes, ecological projects, exhibitions of artistic and
ecological products.
The working hypothesis was accepted that the readiness of the future teacher of labor education and
technology for environmental education of students at school is formed under the following conditions:
the development of awareness of the role of the teacher in solving environmental problems;
familiarization with the purpose, tasks and content of environmental education; forming a valuable
attitude towards nature; environmentalization of professional training; organization of environmental
work and artistic and creative activities.
Investigating this problem, we used the methods of theoretical and empirical research: analysis and
synthesis to clarify the main concepts and categories of environmental training of future teachers of labor
education and technology; study of psychological-pedagogical and scientific-methodological literature
and advanced pedagogical experience on the problems of environmental training of students of higher
education institutions; distinguishing regularities and formulating conclusions from the investigated
problem.
The three-stage pedagogical experiment was conducted at Mykhailo Kotsyubynskyi State Pedagogical
University in Vinnytsia (Ukraine). At the ascertaining stage, the levels of students' readiness for
ecological education of students at school were determined, at the search and practical stage,
organizational and pedagogical conditions for ecological training of future teachers of labor education and
technology were worked out; at the control and generalization stage, the research results were analyzed and processed using statistical methods, and theoretical and experimental conclusions and
recommendations were formulated.