PEDAGOGICAL BASES ОF FORMATION OF READINESS OF FUTURE TEACHERS FOR ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND UPBRINGING OF STUDENTS OF JUNIOR CLASSES

Introduction. The modern level of ecological safety of society is connected with the level of education, culture and education of its members. Formation of ecological culture is an important social, pedagogical and universal problem. It acquires a special relevance in the modern world in implementing sustainable development education, rethinking relations in the system of «nature – man – society» and seeking ways to harmonize them. In this context, the problem of professional teacher training for future teachers of elementary school is relevant for the formation of their readiness for activities in the field of environmental education and upbringing of junior students. It should be noted that the phenomenon of readiness is the subject of study, both teachers and psychologists. The first focuses on identifying the factors and conditions, the teaching and educational tools that enable you to manage the formation and development of the future teacher. Psychologists are guided by the establishment of the nature of relationships and dependencies between the state of readiness and the effectiveness of the activity. Purpose. Definition of the essence of the concept of future teachers' professional readiness for environmental education and upbringing of junior students, its structural components necessary for activities in the industry. Results. In readiness for activity, we will understand the complex, integrated, systemic, personal formation (potential quality of the individual) that arises as a result of certain experience and is based on the formation of a positive attitude towards activity, awareness of motives and needs in this activity, which manifests itself in concrete actions. In the structure of the readiness of future teachers to solve the problems of environmental education and education of students on the basis of the conducted research, analysis of teachers in this field of education, we highlighted the most important components that are necessary for the future teacher of elementary school for effective activities in the field of environmental education and upbringing of the younger schoolchildren: 1) ecological culture of the teacher, according which his attitude is formed, position in the formation of the ecological culture of schoolchildren; 2) a system of philosophical, psychological and pedagogical, methodological knowledge about the process and methods of forming the personality of schoolchildren and its important component – ecological culture; 3) system of natural sciences and environmental knowledge of students; 4) possession of the skills of organizing a holistic process of education and formation of the ecological culture of junior students. Originality. The scientific novelty of the results of the study is that: based on the analysis of literary data, components are identified for the future teacher of elementary school for effective activities in the field of environmental education and upbringing of junior pupils; established the main pedagogical skills and functions that should be mastered by the future teacher in the process of vocational training, which will ensure the effectiveness of their activities in the field of environmental education and upbringing of junior pupils. Conclusion The analysis of the psychological and pedagogical preparation of future teachers for environmental education and upbringing of junior students, analysis of the functions of their activity makes it possible to develop a complex of didactic conditions for the formation of the readiness of future teachers for environmental education at school, to improve the existing system of psychological and pedagogical preparation that will promote development a complex of professionally significant qualities and personality traits of a modern teacher regarding his activity in environmental education of junior students.