QUALITY OF PSYCHO-PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS: THE EMPLOYER'S PERSPECTIVE

The article describes the strategy and tools of employer assessment of the quality of psychopedagogical training of prospective teachers at the main stages of professional education at a university, which is based on the professional standards for teachers and the demands of the regional labour market. The methods employed to research this issue are pedagogical modeling, studying laws and regulations in the educational sphere, studying the experience of universities related to employer integration into the process of quality assessment of psycho-pedagogical training, surveying employers, and mathematical statistics methods which made it possible to comprehensively investigate the effectiveness of psycho-pedagogical training and provide some recommendations for improving its quality taking into account the employer assessment. The findings can be used to modernize the process of professional education and training, they can be of interest for higher education institutions which aim at improving the system of assessing the quality of teacher training, including the quality of psycho-pedagogical training, which, according to the requirements of the updated Federal State Education Standard of Higher Education, requires the involvement of employers and (or) employers' associations to assess education quality. (C) 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK