Training future teachers for pedagogical support of ecological and aesthetic development of primary school students

The ecological and aesthetic development of primary school students is a multifaceted process resulted in the child’s ecocentric thinking, the stable, personally significant attitude to the natural habitat as a pragmatic and aesthetic value reflected in a competent and respectful collaboration in the system of man - nature - society. Like any educational process, the ecological and aesthetic development of primary school students requires a detailed theoretical understanding, the ability to create the best educational environment for this process on the part of a teacher. A primary school teacher is ready for the pedagogical support of the students’ ecological and aesthetic development at the stage of getting through the syllabus. The researches on the issue under review, the solutions of its theoretical and practical challenges are presented in the scientific literature. However, in view of the transforming system of higher teacher training education, there is a need to systematize the existing approaches, harmonize the key mechanisms and tools for teaching students with the ideas of the competency-based, activity and environmental approaches, the development of testing and assessment materials. The research deals with the mechanisms of training future primary school teachers for pedagogical support of the ecological and aesthetic development of students considering the current trends in the Russian higher education as well as the values of this process.