TRAINING OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS

The article is devoted to the issue of teaching computer graphics to students of computer science at pedagogical universities, which is related to the development of information and communication technologies and modern trends in education. Based on a survey conducted with the participation of the authors of more than 250 representatives of IT companies and computer science teachers, it has been determined what life competences should be formed by teachers in students within computer science classes according to the requirements of the labour market, which sections of computer graphics are promising for student learning and therefore important for training of pre-service teachers of computer science. The content of computer graphics training for pre-service teachers of computer science at five pedagogical universities of Ukraine is analysed, the system of computer graphics training for pre-service teachers of computer science at the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University is described. Besides, the structure is presented and the need for the introduction of a specially developed electronic training course for distance learning of pre-service teachers of computer science is defined. It is determined which components of the information and digital competence of pre-service teachers of computer science the course in computer graphics should be aimed at. It is noted that this course contributes to the formation of important information-digital and professional competences, which are necessary for a modern specialist in the field of computer graphics as well as for a pre-service computer science teacher. The teachers who took part in the survey emphasised that they lacked qualification in dealing with such methodological issues as active methods of teaching computer science (51.1%), the cognitive- research method (44.8%), the educational project method (41.6%) etc.