PRE-SERVICE MUSIC TEACHERS TRAINING FOR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the expansion of the types of activities carried out by teachers, the significant opportunities of music to influence the upbringing and development of the personality, the effective organization of educational activities, as well as the need to form teachers’ ability to carry out educational activities with various participants in the educational process.
The purpose of the article is to summarize the experience (forms of organization of education and teaching methods) of training pre-service music teachers for educational activities in higher education institutions of Ukraine.
The significance of music teacher’s educational activities is revealed. The main forms of training pre-service music teachers for educational activities in Ukrainian higher education institutions are highlighted. They are: musical lecture, lecture-concerts, concert with comments, concert-debate, concert in mixed genres, solo concerts, mini-concert, cyclical concert, traditional concert, talks about music, thematic evenings; brain-rings, musical meetings, thematic meetings; theatrical performances, song performances, staging of musical fairy tales, songs; laboratory and practical classes; music festivals, competitions; discussion fan club of music lovers; exhibitions, wall newspapers; musical and creative projects, etc.The methods of training pre-service music teachers for educational activities are summarized. They are: verbal methods (explanations, talks, storytelling, lectures, persuasion, discussions, debates, etc.); method of artistic and pedagogical communication; visual methods (demonstration, illustration, observation); practical methods (performance of various practical exercises: singing, playing musical instruments, evaluation of performing interpretation, creative stage tasks); methods of problem-based learning (problem lectures, partial-search, research methods), creation of problem-based game situations; methods of active learning (game pedagogical exercises, business and imitation-role-playing games, micro-teaching); presentation of own musical hobbies; reflective evaluation of musical works; analysis of video lessons, blogs, music sites, forums; creation of scenarios for educational events and their implementation in games-competitions, role-playing games, etc.; binary method; imitation method; methods of analyzing musical works (exercises for developing expressive speech skills and abilities; comparison of parts of different musical works); methods of using dictionaries of emotional and figurative definitions of music; creation of a situation of success.