The role of psychodidactics in initial teacher training

The article introduces the idea of developing a new branch of psychological and pedagogical knowledge - psychodidactics and analyses its role in the process of schooling and initial teacher training. As it has been noted in a variety of scientific sources, there is a contradiction between scientific and psychological theories and school teaching. There is no strong links between the theoretical aspects of pedagogical, psychological and methodological ideas and the mechanism to bringing them to school learning has not been developed. Therefore the author puts forward the idea of synthesis and creation of a new branch of psychological and pedagogical science - Psychodidactics. Psychodidactics is based on the system of methodological approaches to learning. The article provides the definition of the subject of Psychodidactics and puts forward the idea of packet technologies in teaching based on Psychodidactics. Relying on packet technologies allows teachers to organize the learning process according to psychological, didactic and methodological ideas. The problem of teacher training based on the theory and ideas of Psychodidactic packet learning technologies is emphasized.