WAYS OF IMPROVING PROFESSIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING OF FUTURE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TEACHERS

The article is devoted to the issues of professionals in the field of vocational education training and the factors that affect the students’ and lecturers’ activities. Research of well-known scientists who deal with future professionals in the field of vocational education training (masters of vocational education, teachers of technology) in higher educational institutions (HEI) is analyzed; the formation of the teacher (lecturer) in the process of training is revealed. The content and forms of educational motivation, which has specific components, are considered; the statement concerning the reasons of better results of the received knowledge when students consciously aspire to get a profession, to get competencies, to receive pleasure from the process of knowledge, to have material prosperity in the future is substantiated. Emphasis is placed on the formation of the appropriate level of professional and pedagogical competence, including the basics of pedagogical skills of future professionals in the field of vocational education. One of the main factors influencing the activities of both students and lecturers is the appropriate scientific and logistical base of higher education, which allows improving the quality of education through the use of various modern technologies, multimedia equipment, and technical means in the educational process. It is proved that professional in the field of vocational education training is currently based on the formation of the necessary set of competencies: knowledge, skills, and methods of their use, personality traits, and pedagogical values to solve professional and pedagogical issues by mastering new technologies, techniques, and types of professional activities. It has been found that the activity of a modern professional in the field of vocational education as a teacher and an organizer is constantly expanding, so the ways to improve this activity are determined by the professional orientation of the educational process and compliance with the requirements for specialists to the social order; creating an atmosphere of partnership, joint productive activities of lecturers and students of higher education; modernization and improvement of technologies and methods of professional and personal development of vocational education teachers in the process of professional training.