THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY POLYETHNIC ENVIRONMENT IN TRAINING FUTURE TEACHERS TO WORK AT SCHOOL
Purpose of the paper : to characterize the polyethnic environment of a pedagogical university and to describe the system of measures used by the teaching staff in the process of training future teachers to work in a multicultural school environment. The goal can be decomposed into the following tasks: 1) to consider the concept and structure of the environment; 2) to identify the characteristics of the multi-ethnic environment of a pedagogical university; 3) to describe the system of measures to train future teachers to work in a multicultural school environment; 4) to find out students’ opinions about the effectiveness of this system. Methods : solving the above-mentioned tasks, the method of analysis was applied to characterize the environment of the university, synthesis and generalization were applied to describe the system of training future teachers to work in the multicultural environment of school, interviewing was applied to prove the effectiveness of the system. Results : The article analyzes the concept of a multiethnic environment of a pedagogical university. It has been found that the multi-ethnic environment of a pedagogical university has three components: technological, communicative and spatial. Two levels of activities in the system of training future teachers to work in a multicultural school environment (general university level, subject level) have been identified. The conclusion about the effectiveness of the activities was made on the basis of interviewing students - future teachers of the English language. Scientific novelty : the article describes the multiethnic environment of a pedagogical university, studies its role in training future teachers to work in a multicultural school environment, analyzes the effectiveness of the system. Practical significance : the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in training future teachers of primary and secondary schools.