ORGANIZATION OF VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES AS A RESOURCE OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS

Abstract

The article is dedicated to study of educational potential of volunteer activity in professional training of special education teachers. Research on organization of volunteer activities in higher education within the framework of competence-based approach in the process of practice-oriented learning is analyzed. Experience of activity of volunteer group “Solnechnyy Zaychik” (Sunny Bunny) of Special (Defectological) Education Department of M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University is described and analyzed. Conditions for effective inclusion of volunteering in the educational space of higher educational institution are determined on the basis of analysis results: ensuring the possibility of future special education teachers’ participation in professional orientation volunteer activities; creating conditions for changing the student’s position from objective to subjective; orientation to zone of proximal development of future specialists; assistance to student self-government development; providing a wide range of directions and forms of volunteer activity in the main and related professional fields; search and approbation of new forms of volunteering in distance format taking into account the specifics of volunteering. Recreation of identified conditions of volunteer activities’ effective organization in the process of professional training of special education teachers will contribute to enrichment of educational space of higher educational institution, special education teachers’ growth and professional development of students.