CONTEXTUAL EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF THE FUTURE TEACHERS TRAINING TO INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY

In this article we analyzed the features of the training of future teachers to innovative pedagogical activity; identified the possibilities of contextual education application in pedagogical institutions; considered the survey results of the beginning teachers of secondary and vocational schools; defined a number of innovative forms, methods and technologies for implementing the contextual education system that allow combining educational, quasi professional and educational-professional activity, such as: design and usage of electronic educational resources, electronic teaching methods; engaging students into self-educational activity by means of Web services; fulfillment of individual and group projects based on Web and Blog-quests in which the online learning in the context of future professional activity takes place. Examples of their development and usage in educational process are shown.