Structural and content basis for preservice teachers’ professional thinking formation

Abstract

In the article the structural and content basis for preservice teachers’ professional thinking formation is defined. The teacher's professional thinking is considered in this article as a specific mental activity, including a generalized reflection and creative transformation of the objective characteristics of the educational process, the solution of pedagogical problems to achieve the goals of pedagogical interaction. In the structure of professional thinking the following components are identified and described: cognitive, motivational-value, operational, reflexive. Pedagogical conditions of effective formation of students' professional thinking are represented in the work.