Designing a Platform for Additional Subject Training of Schoolchildren Based on Professional Requests of Teachers

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to determine the needs of teachers and concretize the structural, content, technological and ergonomic characteristics of the new regional platform for the implementation of additional subject training of schoolchildren in the Krasnoyarsk region, functioning in a digital society. Despite the fact that today online education resources are gaining more and more popularity, providing unlimited access to sources of knowledge for all segments of the population, their use in the real educational process, including additional subject training of schoolchildren, is not gaining such popularity as among the adult contingent of students. This fact is due to the characteristics of the younger generation, as well as such characteristics of existing platforms as rigid fixation of content and procedural components, mass character without the possibility of adjusting to the needs of a particular student, school, program or the author’s position of a real teacher. In this regard, there is a need to develop such a platform that will meet the needs of school teachers, and innovative teachers, interested in the development and productive use of digital educational resources in the multilevel training of schoolchildren in the context of distance education will participate in its development and filling. It seems that such an environment will increase the innovative potential of the Krasnoyarsk region in the field of general education, positively affect the image and competitiveness among other regions of the Russian Federation.Materials and methods. The paper analyzes psychological, pedagogical, methodological literature and scientific works devoted to the research topic. The results of a questionnaire survey conducted by the authors are analyzed in order to determine the attitude of teachers of the Krasnoyarsk region to the idea of developing a new regional platform for additional subject training of schoolchildren and identifying the requests of its potential users in the field of structure, design, functional and technological characteristics.Results. The empirical data obtained in the course of the study confirmed the fact that the search for new ways and means of effective organization and implementation of additional subject training of schoolchildren is today an urgent and significant task for both pedagogical theory and educational practice. As the main characteristics of the educational platform, requested by the respondents, such as the ability to transform content according to the needs of the teacher and the student, clustering of content according to didactic tasks and subject content, the use of cognitive visualization, activation of independent activity of students, visualization of learning progress and an intuitive interface, meeting the main focus and the needs of the target audience were identified.Conclusion. The results of the research made it possible to determine the needs of teachers and to concretize the structural, substantive, technological and ergonomic characteristics of the new regional platform for the implementation of additional subject training of schoolchildren of the Krasnoyarsk region, functioning in a digital society. The data obtained are the basis for the development of training courses-transformers with open access to informative units for innovative teachers.