Methods and technologies for training future teachers of robotics

Abstract

Currently, schools have introduced a subject aimed at the formation of technical and engineering knowledge of students-educational robotics. This is because the modern digital society needs trained personnel with knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence, physics, electronics, programming, and design. For such demanded personnel to appear on the labor market, their training must begin at school, developing children's interest in engineering and technical professions, as well as the corresponding skills and abilities. Thus, the organization of the technical training of schoolchildren is an urgent task, which can be solved only if there are competent teachers in educational organizations, including in the field of educational robotics. The purpose of the study is to identify technologies and determine the organizational and methodological conditions for teaching students of pedagogical universities the basics of educational robotics, the formation of their special competence that allows them to teach robotics at different levels of basic general education. The article discusses the methods and technologies of training future teachers of educational robotics based on the content model proposed by the authors, in which the components of the teacher's professional competence are highlighted, the target and methodological components of training are presented, the organizational conditions for the formation of teachers ' competence for the successful implementation of professional activities in the field of educational robotics in the educational environment of a higher educational institution are determined. © 2021 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.