Future teachers’ training to application of cognitive barriers in professional activities during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

New challenges for the education system have appeared due to the COVID-19 pandemic that’s why it is crucial to improve teachers’ training. There are instances that prevent the entire manifestation of the character, his/her self-achievement, self-expression and self-agency. Such instances are barriers that accompany the educational procedure. The aim of the research is to give theoretical substantiation and offer the pedagogical technology, which provides future teachers’ training to application of cognitive barriers in their professional activities in terms of the pandemic caused by Covid-19. The main hypothesis of the research is the idea that specially organized future teachers’ training focusing on the formation of their competence in application of cognitive barriers is the basis of their successful professional activities. The research methodology is built on the dialectical unity of such methods: comparative historical method, genetic method, competence-based method, systemic method, synergetic method. The proposed technology is built on the general didactic and specific principles and is accomplished via motivational, procedural, stage of obtaining of experience, analytical and reflexive stages involving appropriate strategies and tactics. It provides the result in formation of future teachers’ competence in application of cognitive barriers in professional activities.