Keyword: «creative abilities»

In this work the theoretical aspect of concept creative competence of the teacher of initial classes is con-sidered. The purpose of work is detection of creative competence of teachers of initial classes.

The paper describes the definitions of such concepts as “creativity”, “abilities”, “creative abilities”. The author analyzes interpretations of these concepts in modern scientific literature. The author views the factors affecting the development of creative abilities and gives own definition of “creative abilities” and “creativity”.

The relevance of the presented research is due to the need to study the problem of preparing students for the formation of cognitive culture in the learning process. Technological preparation is an important component of modern schoolchildren education and upbringing, formation of cognitive culture among students. In the conditions of a democratic state development, one of the most urgent problems remains constant improvement of educational and cultural level of the people. That is why the task is so urgent today - to teach schoolchildren to learn, to acquire their knowledge independently, to navigate the flow of information. New programs of the general education school direct teachers toward the formation in students a set of interdisciplinary or general educational knowledge, skills and abilities that serve as the basis of the cognitive culture for each age group. The main approach, which was used to achieve this goal, is culturological one. The main method is problem method; in addition, visual, verbal and practical methods were used. The school curriculum was analyzed, and topics were identified, in which it was possible to introduce cognitive material for the formation of the cognitive culture. The main conditions for preparing students for the formation of cognitive culture in the process of teaching the subject were considered. The result of this research work is revealing of the basic methods and forms for maximizing the creative potential of students. The research problem consists in comprehension, theoretical substantiation of the effective pedagogical conditions that would contribute to the formation of students’ cognitive culture. The necessity of solving this problem, its urgency, determined the choice of the research topic: "Readiness of students for the formation of cognitive culture". The aim of the research is to substantiate theoretically the pedagogical conditions for the readiness to form among students cognitive culture. The object of the research is the process of forming the cognitive culture in schoolchildren. The subject of the study is the readiness of students to perceive cognitive culture. To solve these tasks, a set of research methods was used: analysis of philosophical, psychological and pedagogical scientific works, synthesis, systematization, classification, generalization.

The article presents the results of studying the creative thinking of junior students with hearing pathology. To obtain objective data, both hearing impaired children and their healthy peers participated in the study. It was revealed that creative abilities and creative thinking are poorly developed among hearing impaired students as compared with their healthy peers. A child with a hearing impairment tends to operate with stamps. It is difficult for him to produce and implement his own plan, to create atypical images and objects.

The article summarizes the author’s experience of using extra-curricular activities when teaching English to second-year Education majors (Primary education and the English language). Principles of extra-curricular activities are highlighted, ways of developing creative abilities are described, examples of the extra-curricular activities conducted during the second year of studies with the Education majors are given and their education value is analyzed.