Mixed Education as a Factor of Formation of Self-employment for Future Teachers of Informatics

Abstract

The concept of mixed learning and some aspects of its implementation in institutions of higher education are considered in the article, in particular in the training of students for the specialty 014 Secondary education (Informatics). A distant form of education provides an opportunity for anyone to get education. The choice of time, pace, place of study, the availability of materials at any time, an individual approach, counseling at a convenient time, the opportunity to work and study at the same time — all these are benefits of distance education. However, there is a certain list of specialties, for which it is inappropriate to introduce distance learning in full. Such specialties involve working with people and responsibility for every specialist's work. This is also applied for teachers. On the other hand, distance learning develops self-education skills. A computer science teacher who is forced to acquire new knowledge about program versions, programming languages and devices at a certain time must be able to quickly, responsibly and effectively improve his or her professional level. Therefore, we consider it important to help acquire self-education skills for undergraduate students. According to age-specific features, criticality, abstraction, and algorithmic thinking are already formed. They are ready for independent work, responsibility for its results, and the formation of their own motivation. Formation of self-education skills should not be separated from professional activity. Accordingly, examples of tasks for laboratory work on discipline "Laboratory Workshop on a specialty" are offered. The work is carried out 4 hours, two of which graduates carry out tasks remotely. In this case, there is a possibility of consulting with the lecturer on-line or with the help of messengers. And one lesson is held in auditorium, where the defence of work in front of the group and discussion of the results take place. In this way, the disadvantages of remote execution of work are minimized and the possibility of an objective assessment of the work of the master student is provided.