Efficiency of Social and Educational Experimental Training “New Physical Culture for the New Ukrainian School”

Present school educational process can be characterized by the dominance of old approaches and stereotyped classical forms of learning. Physical culture is seen as a subject that forms physical and mental qualities and skills, stimulates the development of such an attitude towards health that contributes to active life and the development of social competence. Therefore, there is a need to change the teachers’ views on their own social mission, and to update the methodology of physical culture in the primary school. It requires modernization of the content and forms of teachers’ training in the context of the Concept of the New Ukrainian School. The purpose of the study is to determine the effectiveness of social and educational experimental training “New Physical Culture for the New Ukrainian School” in the system of postgraduate pedagogical education. The research was conducted on the basis of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education (June-November 2018). Questionnaires at the beginning and after training, introspection and analysis of lessons three months after the training, experimental methodology for determining the efficiency coefficient of the lesson have been used. Vectors of pedagogical attention are singled out, important for the teacher socially-oriented tasks of the lesson are described. The results of the study point to positive social and educational effects of the experimental training. The training has been implemented in the postgraduate educational process.