ORGANIZATION OF GROUP ACTIVITIES OF OLDER PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE PROCESS OF EXPERIMENTING

The authors of the article analyze the advantages and disadvantages of group activities of older preschool children. The article focuses on the importance of children's experimentation for the versatile development and readiness of older preschool children to study at school. A comparative characteristic of the organization of individual children's experimentation and a group of older preschool children is presented. Based on a survey of older preschool children and their teachers, as well as monitoring the activities of children during experimentation, problematic aspects of organizing group activities of children are identified. Psychological and pedagogical conditions for organizing group activities of older preschool children for effective interaction during experimentation are presented. The expediency of using experimentation as a means of developing children's research activity is substantiated. The specifics of experimentation are indicated. The purpose and structure of experimentation as a kind of games for children's cognitive development are determined. The article also contains a list of devices and materials for arranging the experimentation centre which should be located in a preschool institution according to the thematic principle and teacher’s work plan; due to such centre children will be able to further freely experiment and consolidate the learned material through independent search activities. It is proved that the use of psychological and pedagogical conditions for the organization of group activities of older preschool children in the process of experimentation will contribute to the formation of their beliefs about nature and the world.

FORMATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH COMPETENCE OF MASTER'S DEGREE STUDENTS BY MEANS OF BYOD TECHNOLOGY

The authors of the article analyzed the features of using the innovative BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) technology in the formation of research competence of master's degree students. The European experience of applying BYOD technology is analyzed. Emphasis is placed on the relevant use of this technology in higher education institutions, which is related to the digitalization of the educational process, the pandemic and martial law in Ukraine. The results of the ascertaining phase of the pedagogical experiment are presented, the participants of which were master's degree students of Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University and Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University (Kyiv). The students are enrolled in such academic programs as “Pedagogy of Higher Education. Tutoring”, “Counseling”, “Preschool Education. Primary Education”, “Preschool Education. Speech Therapy”, “Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy".The article reveals the educational potential of BYOD technology for the formation of scientific research competence of master's degree students. It is noted that the use of this technology in terms of offline, online and mixed studying helps higher education students acquire skills necessary to analyze, generalize, systematize and compare information. In addition, information retrieval and critical analysis skills are successfully formed. The differences in the application of this technology in conditions of individual and group work with master’s degree students are shown.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATION SKILLS OF SENIOR PRESCHOOLERS IN THE EXPERIMENTATION PROCESS

The authors of the article consider the importance of cooperation skills as some of soft skills of a person. The significance of developing these skills from preschool age on is emphasized. The influence of children's experimentation on their all-round development and readiness of senior preschool children to study at school is considered. The interrelation between group activities in the process of experimentation and the development of senior preschoolers’ cooperation skills is shown. Based on the observation of children's activities in the process of experimentation, the educator’s participation in this process and the survey of senior preschoolers and educators reveal the aspects of the organization of children’s group activities that have to be improved. The peculiarities of the educator's participation at all stages of the experiment done by senior preschool children in groups are analyzed – during the goal setting, discussion of the experimental procedure, summarizing, as well as during the verbal report on the results of the experiment. Emphasis is placed on the fact that it is important to organize experimentation centres at preschool institutions, which will allow children to freely experiment and form a team to carry out search activities. The psychological and pedagogical conditions for the children's experimentation in groups being organized at preschool institutions by educators for the successful formation of senior preschoolers’ cooperation skills are formulated.