РОЗВИТОК СПРЯМОВАНОСТІ ВЧИТЕЛЯ ПОЧАТКОВОЇ ШКОЛИ НА ЗДІЙСНЕННЯ ЗДОРОВ'ЯЗБЕРЕЖУВАЛЬНОЇ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ

The expediency of formation of primary school teacher’s orientation to realization of health maintaining professional activity is caused, on the one hand, by teacher’s considerable influence on junior pupils’ healthy development through education and, on the other hand, by pedagogue’s poor awareness of his role in the process of maintaining children’s health.

The aim of this research is stimulation of primary school teacher’s orientation to implementation of schoolchildren’s health maintenance, which means strengthening the motivational-value and cognitive-procedural components of teacher’s professional-pedagogical activity and his scientific-methodic support when implementing educational process directly.

A complex of empirical methods has been used. They are: analysis of the results of teachers’ professional activity and analysis of teacher’s activity at lessons; group discussions dedicated to the tasks that were planned to solve; individual talks that were conducted after classes; survey using special questionnaires; methods of mathematical statistics for qualitative and quantitative analysis of empirical data.

Lectures and practical classes, that were held at seminar “Topical Issues of Child’s Healthy Development” and where active forms and methods were used, promoted primary school teacher’s health maintaining professional-pedagogical activity. Teachers’ scientific-methodic support was carried out when attending lessons of each other and analyzing them, observing teachers’ activity in extracurricular work, analyzing the state of school documentation by teachers etc.

Experimental data, obtained on the basis of seminar students’ self-evaluation of the results of their educational and professional activity during the ascertaining and control tests, have shown positive dynamics in all investigated indicators. These indicators were: stability of interest in realization of schoolchildren’s health maintenance, positive attitude to conducting healthy lifestyle, acquisition of knowledge about the basics of formation of child’s health, mastering the health maintaining educational technologies, ability to organize subject-subject relationships, implementation of pedagogical reflection.