Abstract:

Pedagogical practice performed by first-cycle students in educational institutions helps to improve the training of future educators – teachers, tutors, social pedagogues, organizers of non-formal activities. In the university model of pedagogical practice three stages are distinguished that reflect a consistent change in roles of a student who performs the practice – from an observer or a pedagogue’s assistant working under the care of a mentor and a practice supervisor to an independent worker under the supervision of a mentor and a practice supervisor. The first pedagogical practice in the first year of studies is performed in preschool educational institutions, in preschool education groups. During the second semester students already perform the practice in 1-4 grades of primary school. After the completion of the practice students are encouraged to reflect on their experience, to notice its positive and negative sides, the successes and failures they faced, to rethink the acquired competences and to project the ways and means of their professional development.

In the article the experiences and insights of first-cycle students’ pedagogical practice in primary grades for the improvement of the model of practice will be analysed. To achieve the aim of the research and to collect the data of the research the method of written reflection has been used.

Keywords:

Pedagogical practice, future pedagogues, reflection, improvement of the organization of practice.