PREPARING A FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER TO CREATE AN ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO AS A TOOL FOR REFLECTION AND GENERALIZATION OF PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Abstract

The article describes the experience of training future primary school teachers to create an electronic teacher's portfolio, reveals its potential as a means of stimulating the need for higher education students to self-educate, personal and professional self-improvement and ensures the competitiveness of future specialists in the modern labour market. Portfolio technology allows teachers to demonstrate their level of professional competence, summarize and present the results of their teaching activities, professional achievements, acquired knowledge and skills, methodological skills, mastery of innovative pedagogical technologies, objectively assess their own capabilities, and plan actions to achieve better results. Educational regulations require teachers to create an electronic portfolio. The advantage of an e-portfolio is that it can be published on the website of a general education institution, teacher’s own blog or website, posted in pedagogical communities, on social networks, thus demonstrating the teacher’s level of professionalism and his or her achievements. It has been found that in the process of creating a pedagogical e-portfolio, higher education students acquire the skills of pedagogical reflection necessary for their professional development and career growth, learn to objectively evaluate and present their own pedagogical achievements, master the skills of creating a personal and professional image, which contributes to the formation of the professional competence of a future specialist. The authors of the article have modelled and described the structure of the electronic portfolio of a future primary school teacher. Its components are: personal information; educational activities; scientific and research activities; international activities, cultural and educational activities; self-assessment of professional competence and the level of development of professional and personal qualities. Digital tools for creating e-portfolios are identified: resources for creating presentations (PowerPoint, Canva, Prezi); Google Sites, Wakelet services; platforms for creating own websites Wix, Onepage.