TRAINING OF PHYSICS TEACHERS TO IMPLEMENT THE CREATIVE COMPONENT OF STEM

Abstract

The article is devoted to the topical problem of training physics teachers to work with creatively gifted students in the educational process in this subject.

Analysis of the latest scientific research and publications of authors who are directly involved in the implementation of STEM in the educational process allowed him to come to the conclusion that such training of physics teachers can be carried out during the implementation of its engineering component in the educational process.

The purpose of the article: to theoretically substantiate the potential opportunities of STEM in relation to the development of students' creative abilities, and to show the possibility of professional training of physics teachers for their implementation in the educational process in this subject.

The methodology of our study is the analysis of scientific and scientific-methodical publications, the analysis of the pedagogical experience of physics teachers, the observation of the activities of teachers during the setting and evaluation of creative tasks performed by students, the author's direct work in the jury of the All-Ukrainian Tournament of Young Inventors and Rationalizers and the «International STEM Competition «Edisons of the 21st Century», participation in the development of tasks for them, the organization and conduct of classes with teachers and students in the ESTEAM space (Ko_Laba). All this allowed us to make the appropriate generalizations and conclusions.

The scientific novelty lies in the theoretical justification with subsequent confirmation in practice of the possibility of training a physics teacher to implement the creative component of STEM, which contributes to the development of students' creative abilities in the educational process in this subject.

Conclusions. STEM, in particular its engineering component, has significant potential for the development of students' creative abilities.

To realize this potential of STEM in the educational process of physics, there is a need for appropriate professional training of teachers of this subject.

Such training can be carried out in the system of postgraduate pedagogical education, which quickly responds to teachers' requests and has direct opportunities for introducing the results of teacher training into pedagogical practice.

High efficiency in training physics teachers to implement the creative (engineering) compo­nent of STEM is achieved by author's courses taught by specialists who deal with this problem, webinars, trainings and individual lessons.