Professional readiness of a technology teacher: estimation parameters and formation levels

Abstract. The article deals with the importance of professional readiness for an intending technology teacher to teach fundamentals of agricultural production. The author describes the major factors influencing the training of technology teachers to enable them to work with children. The image of an ideal expert teacher and the pe-culiarities of its development have also been studied. The main goals and the content of technology teach-ers’ professional training have been characterized. The author identifies the complex of parameters of pro-fessional readiness development, their nature and the influence on the development of a technology teach-er’s professional readiness to teach the fundamentals of agricultural production. The criteria and measures to estimate the degree of development of technology teachers’ professional readiness have been proposed and the levels of its formation have been determined.