Video conferencing solutions for students - future teachers’ professional socialization

Modern approaches to teaching imply the implementation of a pedagogical paradigm, where the center is the student himself and the results of his/her learning [1] that directly depend on the process of student interaction with each other in the educational space [2].

When training student teachers, it is important to develop interpersonal communication skills [3; 4] that will allow them to successfully carry out professional activities in the future as part of a teaching team at school, effectively implementing interaction with students and their parents [5]. Numerous stu- dies have revealed the effectiveness of various forms of student teachers’ professional training [1; 2; 6]. Nevertheless, in the practice of teacher education, there are no experimental studies on how teachers can implement various forms of interaction in the context of distance learning for the effective formation of professional socialization of students. A hasty introduction of distance learning risks creating misconceptions on the part of students about the uselessness of such open and flexible learning, as well as distance learning education in general [7; 8]. In remote education without prior preparation, when communication problems among students are systematically manifested, users may mistakenly blame distance education for the failures in teaching [9; 10], rather than the poorquality communication strategy [11]. This, in turn, significantly depreciates the achievements of science over the past decade in the implementation of distance education both from educational and technological point of view [12; 13]. In teacher education this issue becomes even more acute due to the fact that for student teachers some key competencies serving as indicators of their professional socialization are the ability to work in a team, to implement effective communication of pupils in individual and full-class learning and educational activities [14; 15]. From this perspective, it is necessary to search for distance learning technologies that will maximally correspond to modern teacher education and will be effective in the educational process to increase the professional socialization of student teachers [16].