FEATURES OF THE USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PROCESS OF TRAINING THE FUTURE TEACHER OF GEOGRAPHY

Abstract

The article examines the concept of innovative technologies and teaching methods, their importance for training a future geography teacher in a higher education institution. It was found that the introduction of innovations into the educational process is characterized by purposeful activity, which is connected with the search for new content of education and new forms of education. It was analised literary sooon the classification of innovative methods.

It is proposed the classification of innovative learning technologies, depending on the purpose of the lesson and the method of its organization, used by future geography teachers. An analysis of network, game, multimedia and interactive technologies was carried out. It was found that the most common forms of network technologies in preparation for geography lessons are Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Google Docs, Google Forms and YouTube. It was noted that the most effective among multimedia technologies on geographical topics are such programs as Microsoft Clipchamp, iMovie, Adobe Premiere, OpenShot, Videopad Editor, and for creating multimedia presentations - Power Point, Google Slides, Piktochart, etc. The use of game forms is singled out, which allows you to emphasize those facts and phenomena that are the most important when studying certain topics. The use of interactive learning technologies is substantiated depending on the purpose of the lesson and the method of its organization, in particular, cooperative learning technologies, collective-group technologies, situation modeling technologies and technologies for solving discussion issues.

It was found a fairly high degree of satisfaction with the use of innovative technologies by future teachers in geography lessons. It was noted that the vast majority of respondents use game and interactive technologies when preparing for lessons. It was noted that future geography teachers prefer to use game, interactive and project learning technologies in their work. Among the games, the most popular are quests, board games, and role-playing games. It was found that future teachers of geography actively use such types of interactive activities as: work in groups, fishbone, brainstorming, circle of ideas, aquarium, role-playing games, bingo. It has been proven that future geography teachers have a variety of types of interactive work, including the creation of mind maps, interactive videos and quizzes, work with a virtual laboratory, the cubing method, and interactive techniques.

It is justified that the training of future geography teachers is aimed not only at the acquisition of methodical competences, but also at the formation of professional skills by means of interactive learning technologies.