Abstract:

One of the requirements for the training of a modern teacher in accordance with educational and professional standards is the formation of predictive skills and abilities. The use of forecasting allows to reasonably carry out the setting of goals and learning objectives, design and organise the pedagogical process in accordance with the target settings, if necessary, make changes to it to optimise the results. The difficulties that many teachers face in organising the optimal conditions for the development of student's personality are often associated with a lack of predictive skills. Mastering the skills of pedagogical forecasting is already possible during university study. However, the problem of finding effective pedagogical means of their formation remains largely unresolved. One of such tools, according to the authors of the article, is a foresight technology. Foresight today plays an important role in the structure of educational experience, contributes to the development of professional competencies, but the practice of its application is still poorly developed, as is the theory itself.

The aim of the research was to study the potential of foresight technology as a pedagogical tool for the development of predictive skills of undergraduates studying "Pedagogical education" on the example of mastering the course "Modern problems and innovations in education". The article systematises various approaches to the definition of foresight in education, stages, methods and features of the application of this technology. The initial level of development of students' prognostic skills was carried out according to a standardised methodology modified by the authors of the article. The operational component of predictive activity was assessed, which showed that most students are at an average level of development of predictive skills, and some of them are at a high level.

To unleash the potential of foresight technology, the educational standard was analysed; identified competencies that were formed in the study of the discipline "Modern problems and innovations in education", and in the structure of which predictive skills were implicitly included. The key topics of the course were also identified, in the development of which it was advisable to use technology; an algorithm for using foresight technology has been developed and shown by an example. The topic of the project was “Foresight technology of inclusive competences”.

The main implemented technology was Rapid Foresight (RF) version, which allows achieving representative results in a fairly short time. Technological foresight served as its methodological basis. The implementation was sequential in the form of a foresight session, which was carried out in three stages (Pre-Foresight, group selection, generation, or the actual foresight session). The result of the project was presented in the form of recommendations for organizations of higher pedagogical education on the development of competencies for working in an inclusive educational space. In the process of phases implementation, the following methods were used: SWOT analysis, Nominal group technique, Literature Review, Stakeholder Mapping, etc.

Keywords:

Forecasting, predictive skills, foresight technology, predictive tasks.