INFORMATION COMPETENCE AS A NECESSARY COMPONENT OF A SYSTEM OF CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

In accordance with the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation”, the informatization in domestic education is a fundamental condition for the modernization of the educational system and the involvement of the Federal State Educational Standard in educational activities. An exceptional feature of the Russian education reform is its focus on the European approach to diagnosing the quality of knowledge and professional training of graduates from an educational institution. A radical revision of the performance indicator system containing the requirements for knowledge, skills and personal characteristics of teachers from the standpoint of the competence-based approach has taken place. The problem concerning the creation and development of information competence of future teachers is particularly relevant in these conditions. Digitalization of social life has significantly enriched the “information competence” concept regarding the requirements for professional pedagogical activity. Of course, informational competence has become a key aspect and has literally penetrated into all areas of professional pedagogical activity in a very short time, systematically revealing the features of solving professional problems and typical tasks that arise in the process of education and upbringing [14]. In their daily activities, teachers are exclusively engaged in the formation and development of students’ personalities, which requires the possession of the finest impact tools. This situation allows us to consider information technology in professional teaching activities as an effective tool for mastering,interpreting and creatively engaging relevant information. Experts note an increasing continuous expansion of the entire spectrum of components, which demonstrates the active penetration of informatization in all areas of the teacher’s daily activities. This situation obliges teachers not only to have a good command of computer equipment and information and communication technologies, but also to be able to create appropriate resources, develop computer tests and student rating systems, manage the accounting and educational process through the active use of computer programs; have their own websites, web pages, and web portfolios; develop and implement distance learning modules (which has now become especially relevant and extremely necessary in the context of total quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic) for a subject based on ready-made program shells, etc. As can be seen from the foregoing, the features of professional pedagogical activity in the conditions of informatization in education actualize the need for clarification and concretization of general pedagogical representations that have been formed in recent decades in specialized scientific literature based on a competence-based approach.