Gamification of the process of future primary school teachers’ professional training

Abstract

The article deals with the actuality of using the method of gamification in the future primary school teachers’ training, as the rapid development of the information industry requires a constant search for the effective methods and techniques of teaching and their implementation in the educational process. The notion of gamification has been defined as a process in which the participants are involved in order to solve an artificial conflict, which is determined by the set rules and expressed in a quantitative result. The detailed characteristic of the method of gamification has been given, the conditions of its effective use in the process of the future primary school teachers’ training have been outlined. It has been established that the method of gamification can be used in the future primary school teachers’ mastering various disciplines. The examples of the tasks based on the method of gamification on the topic “Teaching as a career”, which can be used in the process of the future primary school teachers’ professional training, have been cited in the article.