Keyword: «future preschool teacher»

Modern specific pedagogical trends in the field of teacher education determine the need for changes in the professional training of students – future educators of preschool organizations. At the same time, the career orientations of future teachers are one of the basic resources for solving the problems of teacher education, which help students formulate their own learning goals, make decisions based on the needs of the preschool education sector and the demands of the labor market. The purpose of the study outlined in the article is to identify the characteristics of career orientations of students in the educational process in order to acquire professional and pedagogical knowledge, skills, competences and to form effective professional orientation associated with professional and personal self-determination. To achieve this goal, an experimental study was conducted, in which 28 students of the Institute of Psychology and Education of Kazan (Volga Region) University took part. The methodological basis of the study was determined by the methods of analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature, questioning and generalization of pedagogical experience. The definition of leading career orientations was carried out using E. Shane’s questionnaire. The obtained data were processed using a licensed version of the Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet editor. As a result of the study, empirical data are presented on determining the career orientations of future teachers of preschool organizations and illustrating the individualization of their learning process, which ensures self-government and self-improvement of the individual taking into account the needs and values of students in combination with the professional component. The materials of the study and its results can be used to improve the educational and methodological support of the professionalization process, as well as to improve the effective organization of independent work of students of a pedagogical university, including that within the framework of individual educational trajectories.