I.N.Kozyrskaya, V.V.Nikolayeva

Karaganda State university by the academician E.A.Buketov Republic of Kazakhstan

THE USE OF IFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIve TECHNOLOGIES IN TRAINING PSYCHOLOGY TEACHERS AND PRESCHOOL EDUCATION SPECIALISTS AS THE BASIS OF A TRAINING PROCESS IMPROVEMENT AT A UNIVERSITY

The accession of Kazakhstan to Bolognese process is an absolute evidence of the international recognition of our higher education system. It binds Kazakhstan to complete modernization of the education and in the sequel to provide it according to European regulations and standards. The introduction of Bolognese declaration requires profound reforming the structure and content of education, training technologies, material and methodological support.

The point of the changes lies in increasing the requirements to training specialists with higher psychological and pedagogical education since social and economical changes that take place in the society, put forward an urgent goal before educational systems - to develop a creative individual of a student who has his own way of thinking and original approach to solving new tasks and problems.

In the terms of changing educational paradigms, the professional activity of psychology teachers and preschool training specialists gets considerably sophisticated brining up to date internal, psychological and intellectual resources of an individual.

Steadiness, stability and quality of the professional activity of psychology teachers and preschool education specialists is stipulated by their professional and pedagogical training characteristics.

It is impossible to organize the system of psychology teachers and preschool education specialists training, to develop their availability for professional activity in isolation from general professional training and specificity of the activity.

An important factor of increasing the efficiency of educational and methodological work is to use of information and communication technologies (ICT).

At the stage of informatization, a society is characterized by the process of active using information as a social product, in connection with which, a highly organized information environment takes place and it influences all spheres of this society members' life activity.

Information environment includes a lot of information objects and connections between them, means and technologies of collection, accumulation, transfer, processing, producing and dissemination, knowledge proper, organizational and legal structures supporting information processes. A society while creating information surrounding, functions in it, changes and improves it. Modern scientific researches convince that the improvement of a society information surrounding initiates the formation of progressive tendencies in developing production forces, processes of members' society intelligence growth in all its spheres including an educational sphere, changes in social relations and interconnections.

Extensive use of information resources being a product of intellectual activity of the most qualified society part defines the necessity to train professional teachers who will be focused on the future. Social expectations including the attitude towards education as a global factor of development gave rise such a conception as advance education (A.D.Ursul), developed in transactions of E.V.Bondarevskaya.

By reason of this, it becomes actual to develop certain methodological approaches to using ICT for the purpose of advance education ideas implementation, particularly for the developing creative potential of an individual, develop students' ability to predict the results of their activity, to develop the strategy of searching the ways and methods of solving problems both educational and practical. Psychological, pedagogical and methodological learning aids oriented focused on revealing optimal conditions to use ICT in order to intensify the teaching process and, its efficiency and quality. Taking into account the above-stated, the main pedagogical goal of using ICT is to improve trainee's individuality, to prepare him for comfort life in the conditions of information society. Here, the following challenges are met:

- thinking development (such as visually efficient, visually figurative, intuitive, creative and theoretical);

- aesthetic education (e.g., use of computer graphic, multimedia);

- developing communicative abilities;

- developing abilities to make decisions or suggest variants of solving problems in a difficult situation (use of computer games oriented to optimization of decision-making ability);

- developing abilities to realize experimental and research work (e.g., computer simulation technique or the equipment mating a computer);

- developing information culture, abilities to process information (use of integrated user's clusters, different graphics and music editor).

The urgency of the above-listed is defined not only by a social law but also by individual needs in self-determination and self-actualization in modern society.

During the past decade the ICT development has made it possible for educational organizations to use completely new types of information support. It has become possible to use electronic textbooks and scientific publications which provides doctoral candidates, undergraduates, students and teachers with actual educational scientific information and makes it possible to integrate into the global scientific space. In new conditions, teacher's information requirements also include requirements to master ICT which favors progress of a researcher's personality, who is trained in developing information surrounding of an educational organization.

The society of information technologies or, as it is called, post-industrial society is interested in its citizens to be able to act on their own, make decisions, adapt to changing life conditions.

To solve all these tasks it is necessary:

- involving every student into active cognitive process;

- putting received knowledge into practice;

- working jointly to solve different problems;

- associating with their age students from other universities, regions and countries;

- free access to all necessary information (at scientific, cultural, informational centers of a city, country and the whole world) in order to create students' own independent but well-reasoned opinion;

- constant testing their intellectual, physical, moral strength in solving arising problems.

The use of modern technologies makes it possible to get knowledge by means of cognitive activity.

For activity arrangement the following means are used:

- a university library information system (as a technological platform which simplifies and speeds up search and selection of traditional printed information resources and electronic multimedia textbooks from a university library) providing access both to a local net and I-Net via a web-server;

- remote resources (available via free Kazakhstani and international e-portals which require mastering I-Net technologies);

- electronic resources of library consortiums;

- international resources, like electronic vault of scientific publishers, providing data access to urgent scientific publications, analytical materials of research centers and also the possibility of publishing the results of their research activity;

- information resources of open access intended to manage training process and providing teachers with information technologies and methods of teaching.

Technological support of teachers' information activity based on ICT technologies with the described content is provided by successive study of:

- program interface to electronic library catalogue access, acquisition service and ordering books in local network (to request necessary literature for training and research purposes);

- internet services and technologies of record retrieval and information interchange in I-Net, educational content control (analysis of educational and internet resources content for professional and personality development, their practicality from the methodological point of view – approbation of the most effective methods of teaching in ICT world);

- program access mechanism to electronic library and publishing resources (extension of used information resources for scientific and educational purposes, prevalence of scientific and methodological results in corresponding environment). Such approach to information resources for supporting the process of professional development helps to include extra motivating factors into the educational process of adult learners, connected with increasing the effectiveness of the professional activity of the teachers’ association in the scientific and educational spheres.

The development of multimedia makes it possible to use new forms of educational process one of which is electronic lectures and presentations. The lectures are written in Power Point program and structured the way that slides include themes and questions for the lecture, main conceptions, schemes, pictures and animations. In general, such lectures are like an electronic textbook. Students and undergraduates can work individually on their personal computer.

Summarizing the above-stated, it is possible to confirm that the use of telecommunications network makes it possible to spread around advanced pedagogical technologies, implement the ideas of distance learning. It also facilitates general development of future psychology educationists and specialists for pre-school education.

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