Elena Javoronko

Global changes in the education system today entail new requirements for the personality of the teacher. Such changes are connected, first of all, with the transition from traditional (full-time) education to distance learning (online). The digitalization of the educational environment, the main characteristic of which is the development of new technologies, methods and organizational forms of education, contributes to the transformation of the functional roles of the teacher, and hence the formation of his/her new list of functions and roles. Among the new functional roles that a teacher should perform in a digital educational environment (DEE), the following can be distinguished: organizer of project-based learning, game master, coordinator of the educational online platform, knowledge validator, developer of educational trajectories, educational content unpacker/packer. The revealed new functional roles of the teacher contributed to the experimental work. The purpose of the article is to present the results of a theoretical analysis of the literature and experimental work on the formation of a new list of functions and roles of student teachers in a digital educational environment. The article defines the leading theoretical and methodological approaches, components of the functional roles formation (motivational value-oriented, cognitive, operational and reflexive-regulatory ones), and also reveals the ratio of components, criteria and indicators of the formation of new functional roles among teacher candidates. The scientific novelty of the study is in clarifying the content characteristics of the "functional roles list" concept. The data obtained during experimental work will allow to effectively carry out the process of forming the functional roles of the student teachers, and theoretical conclusions can be used as a basis for studying the problem of forming functional roles of teacher candidates in the digital educational environment.