TEACHING SKILL DEVELOPMENT BASED ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

This article discusses the opportunity for improvement of teacher’s work through the use of information and communication technologies. The authors analyze scientific research in this area; consider the works of the authors describing the process of professional development of teachers and their creative potential. There is a group of contradictions that should be settled, and this therefore will help to achieve the required quality of pedagogical work and form a high level of pedagogical work of a teacher. The article describes experimental work in implementation of information and communicative technologies in educational process. Groups of indicators have been identified which define level of pedagogical skill in terms of usage of information and communicative technologies. The results of stating, forming and control experiments are shown. Within the programme of professional development of the teachers the authors have developed a special training course for the secondary school teachers. The authors' course contains several modules, each of which is focused on the development of certain components of pedagogical skill. The first module of theoretical part deals with psychoeducational aspects of implementation of information and communicative technologies into the teaching process; issues connected with professional adaptation of teachers to their work in the situation of computerization, and issues of their special training in application of information and communicative technologies. The second module of theoretical part reveals the general issues of implementation of information and communicative technologies into the teaching process, rules and principles of development of electronic educational resources for in-class and extracurricular activity. The next module is about the opportunities of the Internet services. At the end of the training course the teachers are supposed to independently develop learning and teaching software tools for multimedia support of their professional activity. All the analyzed results of the executed research allowed making a conclusion that acquiring of skills in application of information and communicative technologies facilitates further professional development of the teacher.