ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PROJECTS IN THE PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF FINE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES

The article is devoted to the professional and personal development of future teachers of fine arts and technology issues. Different views and approaches to defining the category “future teachers’ professional and personal development” are highlighted. The ways of effective implementation of the process of professional and personal formation of future teachers of fine arts and technologies are defined and characterized. These are educational, practice-oriented activities aimed at the students' personal activation, and their professional motivation; focus on professional and pedagogical activity, formation of active interest in it; and self-realization. Artistic and creative projects are considered as an effective means of professional and personal development of future teachers of fine arts and technologies. Its effectiveness and the need to introduce it into the educational process of institutions of higher pedagogical education have been proven: in classes on the study of professional disciplines; discipline of free choice; during industrial pedagogical practice in institutions of general secondary and extracurricular education; under the conditions of students’ participation in events that take place within the scope of work of creative laboratories of graduation departments. The experience of implementing artistic and creative projects as an effective means of professional and personal development of future teachers of fine arts and technologies at Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University is highlighted. It has been proven that involvement in the implementation of such projects contributes to the maximum use of personal abilities; creates conditions for self-realization of each participant; ensures the use of acquired knowledge in practice and public presentation of what has been achieved, and the result of this activity has significant applied and personal significance. Further research attention is needed to highlight the pedagogical conditions of the professional and personal development of future specialists in the art-pedagogical and educational-technological fields during pedagogical practice.