Research of Teachers' Requests for Training Students of a Pedagogical University in Educational Technologies (On the Example of Physics)
An analysis of requests of schools (administrators and teachers) for modern technologies that a graduate of a pedagogical university should know is an urgent task of the modern system of higher pedagogical education. For current and future teachers, the technologies used in specialized classes of physical, mathematical, and technical orientation are relevant. The research is based on research articles describing the spread and impact of modern educational technologies and mentoring on the training of teachers. The results of processing answers to the questionnaire of physics teachers and methodologists from 57 general education institutions in the region are used as empirical data. The aim of the study was to determine the relevance, distribution, and composition of educational technologies used in teaching physics. Teachers' recommendations for the training of future teachers were also determined. During the empirical research, it was important to find out teachers' wishes and conditions for the mentoring of students of a pedagogical university. The research methods were: survey and statistical data processing, clustering of narrow and specific respondents' answers, generalization of results. In the course of the study, based on the analysis of foreign and domestic scientific periodical literature, analysis and clustering of teachers' responses, the increasing influence of digital learning on the training process of future teachers was revealed. This process is not only related to the need to increase the use of educational content, digital tools, and educational technologies in teaching physics at school. The need for a systematic familiarization of future teachers with the contours of the new “digital education”, its concepts, the emerging didactics of digital learning, and the ideas of cyberpedagogy was established. The survey of teachers in the region revealed the state of the school teaching of physics, their opinions on the use of educational technologies. The ratings of educational technologies used in modern practice are determined by the categories “traditional “ and “innovative”. The names of educational technologies that belong to both categories were determined, which indicates the improvement of technologies and the relevance of their further application in teacher training. Recommendations of teachers on topics of final qualification works of future teachers were revealed. The wishes and conditions for the mentoring process of students by current teachers were identified. The general requirements that determine the ability of teachers to act as mentors of individual practice of students were formulated.