SPECIFICS OF TRAINING OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS TO BE CAPABLE TO SELF-DEVELOP THEIR PROFESSIONAL CAREER IN THE SETTINGS OF STANDARDIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The process of standardization of education is determined by the need to create, on the one hand, unified, and on the other hand, distinctive only to the certain field of knowledge/specialty components, which clearly define the lists of competencies of graduates and expected learning outcomes. This creates the basic mechanisms for developing a wide variety of educational programmers run at higher educational institutions as a basis for training a new generation of specialists with higher education, including pedagogical education, in accordance with the requests of students seen as customers of educational services (internal stakeholders) and employers (external stakeholders). Therefore, educational standards are an essential element of any national education system, the type of which is determined by political, socio-economic conditions, traditions of a particular country and so on. Ukraine, which is no exception, seeks to integrate with the European research and educational space with their high standards in science and education. In the process of specifying the features of training the pre-service teachers to be ready for professional career development with regards to the implementation of Standards of Higher Education in the specialty of 011 “Educational, Pedagogical Sciences”, field of knowledge of 01 “Education / Pedagogics”, in particular for the second (Master’s) level of higher education, it was found that in the list of general competencies of the graduates the most important for the development of professional career are as follows: the ability to search, process and analyze information from various sources (GC2); ability to apply knowledge in practical situations (GC3); ability to acquire and master modern knowledge (GC4); ability to adapt and act in a new situation (GC5); ability of interpersonal interaction (GC7); ability to act socially responsibly and consciously GC8); ability to work in an international context (GC9). Acquisition of such competencies will allow the future teacher to fulfil the five key tasks related to their career growth. These are as follows: 1) career choice; 2) career adaptation; 3) career planning; 4) career change (move); 5) career development.