Training future physical education teachers for health-preserving activity in the conditions of an inclusive educational environment

Abstract

The article highlights the problem of training future physical culture teachers for working in an inclusive educational environment of educational institutions. The aim of the study was to establish the theoretical foundations of the problem of training future physical education teachers for organizing health-preserving activity in an inclusive educational environment. The urgency of focusing research attention on the problem of training potential teachers of physical culture for the introduction of elements of sports and mass work in an inclusive educational environment on health-preserving grounds is substantiated. Scientific information on the concepts of “inclusive educational environment”, “health-preserving sports and mass work” has been systematized. It was determined that the modern inclusive educational environment is characterized by a system of value attitudes towards learning, upbringing and personal development of children with special educational needs, as well as a set of resources (means, external and internal conditions), their life activities in a comprehensive educational institution and a focus on the implementation of individual educational strategies of students. The author characterizes the peculiarity of the professional activity of a physical education teacher in the introduction of health-preserving sports and mass work in an inclusive educational environment; it consists in the need to create a barrier-free health-preserving environment in the future profession, the formation of knowledge, skills of individualization and differentiation in physical education of children with special educational needs and the development of qualities that will contribute to the success of the teacher’s implementation of an individual approach in the physical education of school students, taking into account the principles of inclusion.