THE CONTENT OF PREPARING FUTURE PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS FOR FORMING LEADERSHIP QUALITIES IN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

The paper presents the content of preparing future Physical Education teachers for the formation of sportsoriented leadership qualities in middle school students according to the following pedagogical conditions: reflecting the ideas about the essence and mechanisms of leadership formation in the content of preparing future PE teachers; mastering the technique of pedagogical support of the formation of students' sports-oriented leadership qualities at PE classes; getting future PE teachers involved in situations requiring the formation of students' sports-oriented leadership qualities in team and playing sports. According to the first pedagogical condition, the content of the programme for the subject “Theory and Methods of Teaching Athletic Games” was supplemented with the following topics: leadership qualities and characteristic features of their demonstration; factors of forming sports-oriented leadership qualities; peculiarities of sports-oriented leadership qualities demonstration by middle school students in team and playing sports, etc. Mastering the technique of pedagogical support of the formation of sports-oriented leadership qualities in school students (the second pedagogical condition) was implemented by means of various training and educational events, namely: problem-based and discussion-based lectures, business games, roleplaying games, trainings, etc. The third pedagogical condition presupposed systematisation of knowledge acquired by students and development of firm activity stereotypes related to the formation of middle school students' sports-oriented leadership qualities in team and playing sports. For this purpose, athletic games classes involved exercising organisation of middle school students' activities aimed at the formation of sports-oriented leadership qualities in team games. Results of the experimental data analysis confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed pedagogical conditions, which have been implemented in the process of preparing future PE teachers for forming middle school students' sports-oriented leadership qualities.