TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS AS A COMPONENT OF MUSIC AND AESTHETIC COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

New requests of modern primary school education cause the revision of requirements to professional competence of future teachers. Among other competencies the actual one is musical and aesthetic competence of a primary school teacher as development of creative potential of a personality of a pupil depends on it. Musical and aesthetic competence includes a number of skills (value and motivational, cognitive, technological, practice and activity). The technological skills are of particular importance, as they accumulate the above-stated skills – mastering knowledge, skills and abilities according to indicators: technique of teaching the perception of a musical work; technique of teaching singing; technique of teaching the basics of musical literacy; technique of teaching children to play musical instruments; technique of teaching musical and rhythmic movements; technique of development of primary school pupils' creative abilities. For a more differentiated approach in the assessment of skills and abilities of students, there have been developed a three-level qualitative characteristic. Carrying out measurements on these indicators helped to trace the level of formation of technological skills of future primary school teachers, to reveal shortcomings and the need for improvement of pedagogical conditions of their formation.