THE POTENTIAL OF PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE IN DEVELOPING THE PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY SPECIALISTS

Abstract

In modern society, in the education market and the labour market, professional competences are the focus across all specialties. It is professional competence and its development that determine the level of effective and high-quality preparation of future specialists, including those in computer technologies. The personality of a modern competent specialist, particularly specialists in computer technologies as professional education teachers, is characterised by the ability to adapt professionally, the potential for professional growth, mobility, and the ability to develop and respond quickly in various pedagogical situations; critical thinking skills; the ability to work with diverse information; and prognostic and analytical abilities to successfully solve professional tasks. Solving this issue is possible through strengthening the practical aspect of professional competence development. It has been established that practical experience is one of the key components of the educational process in preparing future teachers of professional education. It has been summarised that practice in forming the professional competence of future specialists in computer technologies is simultaneously considered as the environment for future professional activity; a space for the personal development of the future teacher-researcher within the system of professional and scientific relationships; an indicator of graduates’ training quality; and an integrated type of activity that combines theoretical, practical, and research aspects. In summary, pedagogical practice plays a key role in the formation and development of professional competence among future professional education teachers, ensuring the combination of theoretical training with practical activities in institutions of vocational (vocational-technical) education. Within the framework of pedagogical practice, targeted skills are formed and developed, enabling students, based on acquired knowledge and skills, to conduct competent analyses of professional tasks and effectively build strategies and tactics for solving them.