Building professional competence for teachers in the field of educational robotics

Abstract

The article is devoted to the existing problems arising when forming the readiness of teachers for professional activity in the field of educational robotics. The need for system preparation of the pedagogical personnel satisfying to requests of modern society and capable at the different educational levels to train in educational robotics the younger generation of the country is established, thereby increasing the level of engineering education. The teacher of this direction shall possess professional competence, knowledge, and skills from different scientific areas: information science and information technologies, physics, microelectronics, and artificial intelligence. Theoretical justification of the entity, and also the identification of the main components and methods of forming of professional competence of the teacher of educational robotics is the research objective. Within research, it is established that subject, methodical, technical, special, organizational, and personal components, are the main for successful professional activity of the teacher of educational robotics. Professional competence of the teacher of educational robotics shall form and be improved systemically within the specialized directions of preparation and professional development of pedagogical personnel. In the article experience of the Institute for Information Technology and telecommunications of the North Caucasian federal university in the training of students in educational robotics, and also preparation of pedagogical personnel and professional development of the acting teachers in the field is considered. The perspective direction of research - is studying organizational and methodical conditions of forming of competence of the teacher and development of technologies of training of teachers in the field of educational robotics