Formation of Future Teachers’ Skills to Create and Use Visual Models of Knowledge

The article proposes a solution of the problem of formation of future teachers' skills to create and use visual models of knowledge in professional activities. It is substantiated that modern students, as representatives of the generation Z, have the majority of visual-oriented perceptions. Modelling of special future teachers' preparation for the creating of visual models of knowledge is made. The content of the special course, aimed at forming the future teachers' ability to create and use visual models of knowledge, is described. The pedagogical experiment included two areas of research: the study of the dynamics of the readiness and the formation of skills to create and use visual models of knowledge. Statistical methods confirmed the effectiveness of the author's special course at the significant level of 0.05.