BILINGUAL EDUCATION OF NATURAL SCIENCES TEACHERS AS AN IMPERATIVE OF OUR TIME

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of introduction of the elements of bilingual education in natural sciences teachers professional training. It has been found out that Ukraine has historical experience of introducing bilingual education in general secondary education institutions. It has been revealed that the main problem, in this perspective, is the training of the teachers who would be able to provide bilingual education for school students. The content of the elective course «Science teachers training in US universities» which is taught in English, as one of the means of ensuring a parity model of bilingual education for future natural sciences teachers and a model that displaces has been revealed. Learning of a course involves a dual purpose – the formation of students’ knowledge of the concept of natural sciences teachers training in the United States (structure, features of the content, forms and methods of science teachers training under conditions of continuous pedagogical education) and adaptation of this knowledge to the educational process in Ukraine; formation of intercultural interaction skills. The peculiarity of this course is that teaching is carried out in English depending on the level of students’ foreign language competence formation.
It has been established that the teaching methods which include the use of different dosages of help (according to Yu. Babanskyi) during the performance of cognitive tasks are effective. The use of such teaching methods allows to provide each student with the conditions for the maximum satisfaction of his cognitive needs and formation of communicative skills. These methods involve a gradual transition from collective forms of work to partially independent and fully independent and performing of the tasks, the complexity of which is growing.