FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ TRAINING IN DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN’S CREATIVE ACTIVITY IN LITERATURE

Abstract

The article substantiates the importance of forming a creative personality, developing students' creative abilities at the current stage of education development. The enhancement of primary students’ creative activity in literature is focused on. Therefore, the author emphasizes the necessity to pay due attention to the preparation of the future teachers at the stage of their professional formation at higher institutions. The feasibility and possibility to provide training for future primary education specialists on the development of primary students’ creative activity has been demonstrated. The author states that in order to achieve the mentioned aim, the course «The methodology of teaching the educational domain of language and literature» has been designed for the students of the specialty «Primary Education», 013 of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. The course consists of the following main parts (modules): «Methodology of teaching literacy», «Methodology of teaching language theory», «Methodology of speech development», «Methodology of teaching literature». Each module is dedicated to train teachers to develop primary schoolchildren’s creative activity in literature. The article describes the methods and techniques of creative activity in literature which future primary school teachers should be familiarized with. The author focuses on such an effective method of teaching as story-telling; pays attention to one of the innovative teaching techniques, namely, the comics creation; characterizes the theory of solving the inventive problems of Henry Altshuller, in particular, developed by him typical fantasizing techniques; analyzes the techniques of creative imagination, the creation of fairy tales, proposed by Gianni Rodari; describes the method of teaching how to make up fairy tales, invented by Vasil Sukhomlinsky. The article draws relevant conclusions and outlines prospects for further research.