The soft-skills development in preschool education future specialists

Abstract

The article reflects and summarizes the experience of developing soft-skills in students of the second (master’s) level of higher education in the process of teaching an integrated discipline „Organization of successful activities of a specialist in preschool education.” It is defined as its task of raising the level of awareness of future preschool education specialists with the essence of the concept, soft types skills, formation diagnosis; forms study, methods and means of forming soft skills in preschoolers. The indicators of the information- cognitive component of the formation of soft skills are determined. The discipline curriculum „Organization of successful activities of a specialist in preschool education” reflects the topics of classes provided in each of the three content modules. The connection between the formation of soft-skills and the achievement of life and professional success is shown. Emphasis is placed on changing the concept of success (sensitivity and humanity dominate over rigidity and authoritarianism), which has a positive effect on education, contributes to the humanization of human relations. The discipline provides for the development of the personality model of the preschool education specialist; implementation of goal-setting in accordance with certain requirements, in particular, in accordance with the SMART methodology; formation of the ability to communicate with representatives of various educational institutions, cooperate in a team, solve problems; organization of meetings with well-known specialists with soft skills due to their innovations. The results of the pedagogical experiment are reflected. The expediency of conducting further scientific research in the direction of establishing the relationship between the level of development of the information-cognitive criterion of soft-skills and the general level of development of soft skills is shown.