ADDITIONAL EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PEDAGOGICAL ABILITIES AND MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS TO PROFESSIONAL TEACHING ACTIVITIES: REGIONAL EXPERIENCE
An increasing role of school teachers in modern conditions requires radical improvement of teachers' qualifications and moral training. One solution to this problem is to improve the system of vocational pedagogical orientation of young students, including supplementary education. Subject-profile training of students in the framework of the basic additional educational programs is not only mastering the skills of a specific professional activity. It seems to the authors as a multidimensional, organized and sequential process associated with the formation and evolution of an overall ability of students, who in the presence of high professional level of teachers and the organization of psycho-pedagogical support can orient to establishing sustainable positive interest from a number of young people to educational activities. The study highlights the types of vocational and pedagogical self-determination in the establishment of further education in the region, identified the components of vocational training activities, ways of studying youth teaching abilities, as well as motivation for the teaching profession. The research experiment shows that the regional experience with youth on the formation of a professional focus on pedagogical activity and active teaching practices through additional educational programs creates favorable conditions for the formation of a number of vital value orientations, general and special pedagogical abilities, creates sustained motivation to obtain a profession related to educational activities.