Formation of “Teamwork Skills” in Future Teachers when Creating Didactic Games with Traditional and Digital Components

Abstract

In accordance with the requirements of the professional standard, the teacher of the digital school must have skills related to information and communication technologies, communicative competence, and teamwork skills. The formation of relevant qualities in the conditions of higher education is complicated by a number of different problems. The purpose of the study is to study the features of the formation of teamwork skills in future teachers when developing didactic games with traditional and digital components. Research methodology. Gamification is used both as a technology for acquiring new knowledge and as a technology for team building. The team activity method is used to design didactic games. The experiment involved 60 undergraduates of the Vyatka State University of the training program "Psychological and Pedagogical Education". To assess team effectiveness Laura Stack's methodology was chosen (five levels of team building). Research results. The students of the experimental group are involved in team work on educational games: they study basic mechanics in didactic games; master interactive services; develop their own project, including both non-computer and digital elements. In conclusion problematic questions are formulated, the answers to which make it possible to determine the directions of the work of the didactic game design team: discussion of the goal of the game and the game goal, the choice of basic mechanics and formed competences, the rules and resources, etc.