CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF THE LEVEL OF FORMATION OF ART VALUES IN A CHILD OF SENIOR PRESCHOOL AGE

The problem timeliness is caused by the need to form artistic values in older preschool children and insufficient methodological support aimed at educating the child’s aesthetic values in art schools. A separate issue is an analysis of the artistic values formation in older preschoolers and the criteria for their evaluation.There is a brief description of the standard curriculum content “Conversations about Art”, purpose, organizational features, description of criteria for assessing the artistic values formation in older preschool children, a description of the achievements characteristics in acquaintance with artworks of “Conversations about Art”, elementary level of primary art education in this research work. Research methods: study, analysis of psychological-pedagogical, philosophical and educational-methodical literature in order to determine the state and scientific substantiation of research problem; generalization and systematization of methods for diagnosing the formation of artistic values in the older preschool-age child, pedagogical analysis, the method of expert evaluation.The content of the first-year study is aimed at acquainting the child with the art around us, during it, we form in the older preschool-age child emotional and value attitude to art and introduce it to the artistic image in art. The content of the first-year study is divided into two modules: “Conversations about Art” and “Diversity of images in art”. Each of these training modules has its own tasks and performance indicators. According to our research, the program aims to acquaint the child with the emotional and value of art, artistic image and language of expression during its creation in each of arts; formation of artistic values in older preschool children by means of visual art and synthesis of art in general. For the elementary level of primary art education, it is appropriate to take into account the psychophysiological characteristics of the child and the developmental and playful nature of learning.Keywords: pedagogy of preschool age; art education; aesthetic education; artistic values; senior preschool child; criteria; levels of achievement; visual arts.