PRIORITIES OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS: ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE

Abstract

After the analysing the European scientists’ research is found out that the priority direction of the development of modern education is the formation of students' life skills. Europe has recognized that there is only one effective way to prepare a child for a successful adult life: to learn how to be adapted to any changes that are happening now and are waiting in the future. Life skills help to prepare young people for their future after graduation and provide an opportunity to evolve in all spheres of life successfully. Most Ukrainian researchers prefer to form the so-called soft skills, which include related to communication and human adjustment relationships (communication, teamwork, leadership, ability to prevent and resolve conflicts, etc.). The European scientists make a conclusion that the main role of the primary school teacher is to form pupils’' life skills and social competence to ensure the optimal result of social, emotional, intellectual, physical and moral development of children. In European countries family and educational institutions are recognized as important factors for the formation of life skills from an early age. Therefore, primary school teachers are obliged to be a role model. That’s why the main goal of professional training of primary school teachers is the formation of their readiness for the development of students’ life skills.