TRAINING FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS AS INNOVATIVE UPBRINGING WORK MANAGERS (BASED ON THE COMPETENCE APPROACH, INDEX OF SATISFACTION AND PROFESSIOGRAM)

Abstract

The paper investigates the training future foreign language teachers as innovative upbringing work managers based on the competence approach, index of satisfaction and professiogram in the context of Ukrainian higher education reforming. The research questions whether future foreign language teachers are satisfied with the upbringing work at pedagogical universities and pragmatically competent in it, and what the reasons of their dissatisfaction are. The authors developed the blocks of indicators that characterize the level of the future teachers training for innovative upbringing activity, including a questionnaire related to determining the level of their satisfaction with the upbringing work. The self-esteem of 148 students (2-3 study years) of the Faculty of Ukrainian and Foreign Philology of Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav showed that the majority of respondents (85%) expressed satisfaction with the upbringing work at the faculty and University; 15% of respondents expressed their indifference and dissatisfaction, giving the thought about the reasons of that, which could be their incompetency in it and not involving in the upbringing activity, the absence of interest and motivation for it (because of old upbringing methods, forms and approaches etc.). On the ground of the results of the research, the authors defined the professiogram of a modern foreign language teacher as a manager of innovative upbringing work, grounding on the key competences required of a European teacher. Moreover 5 main reasons for designing the program of the future foreign language teachers training to innovative upbringing work (based on a competence approach, index of satisfaction and professiogram) were identified as: the necessity of the education quality improving  by the way of reforming it; the need of raising the level of students’ satisfaction with educational and upbringing process, and with a future profession in general; the new European demand for teachers in their key competences; the changing role of a teacher into a manager of curricular and extracurricular process at school, according to a new professiogram of a modern foreign language teacher as a manager of innovative upbringing work; the need to transform the upbringing process into the innovative one, according to the modern time period. The research results of this pre experimental stage will allow forming the future teachers’ readiness for an innovative upbringing work.