Doctoral candidate Baymukhanbetov B.M.

Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Kazakhstan

The role of games in the development of future

elementary school teachers’ creative skills

Development of personal creative abilities is one of the most actual problems of a modern society. Social and economic changes first of all have predetermined necessity of changes for development of personal creative abilities. For the decision of the given problem teachers should have formed creative abilities.

Nowadays analyses have shown that the work on the development of secondary school students’ creative abilities is not at high level. Due to the results of observations and interviews it was found out that teachers confined themselves to teaching material development rather than students’ creative abilities development.

Creativity in a broad sense means search, creation, production. In educational activity pedagogical creativity opens a way to science, promotes knowledge of the natural phenomena, national, cultural and universal values to the students.

In the philosophical dictionary "creativity" is an activity of the educated person of a new formation able at a new qualitative level to build his attitude to something [1].

G.Noyer sees the creative person as the person that integrates such qualities - creative thinking with innovation and innovative activity, marks out the following components of the creative person:

· Flexibility of thinking

· Imagination

· Ability to continue doing work

· Breadth of thinking

· Ability to see the new, ability to distinguish

· Ability to take risks

· Developed interest, strong motivation

· Belief in the powers, steady emotion

· Readiness for intensive long and additional work [2].

As a result of the all round analysis of the process of creativity pedagogical creative abilities development conditions are elementary school teachers demonstration of intuition and motivation, then inspiration, their abilities of new ideas finding, drawing up of plans and their consecutive realization.

As the basic tool of the future elementary school teachers’ creative skills development we choose game. For acknowledgement of the high practical importance of students’ creative abilities development by the help of game activity we consider to carry out more expediently the careful analysis of the game.

The well known psychologist investigating social cast of player’s mind, D.B.Elkonin considered: «Game is the practical knowledge within the social activity of the person». In educational process game is a separate didactic category which can be both the form and the means [3].

The game theory and practice are being investigated by domestic and foreign teachers, psychologists, and sociologists. So, for example such works as «Psychology of the game», E. Bern’s «Games for people» are already written. The social orientation of the game consists in the preparation for work. By means of games describing realistic life situations we can see such person’s qualities that define diligence. Games are directed on mental and physical development of the person. The above mentioned features show interrelation and interference of the game and work. Hence it follows the social role of the game providing both the separate person’s and all the society’s development [4].

It is necessary to notice that many tendencies, trends and schools in a cultural life and art have occurred from games as personal creative self display is formed in the game and develop his imagination and feelings also resource and enterprise.

According to A.S.Makarenko the subjective sight at the game in the pedagogical process leads to its wrong use. In many cases teachers forget that the primary goal of any game is to give joy to children [5].

N.K.Krupskaya in her works pays the big attention to the role of the game in a child’s life. As for our contemporary, talented teacher A.S.Sukhomlinsky he considered: «It is impossible to form and develop thinking out of game. Game is like a window to the world where the inner world of the person borders on the life reality and which promotes broadening of his outlook» [6].

Games are a product of human consciousness. Creative activity of consciousness consists in children’s cognition of the world they live and which they should change.

In the conclusion it would be desirable to notice that the future elementary school teachers’ creative skills development demands responsibility, scholarship, workmanship, scientific researches and hard work. The right use of the game in the creative abilities development will render beneficial influence in the preparation of the highly skilled specialists.

Literature:

1. Modern Philosophical Dictionary//edited by V.E.Kemerova – Moscow: Odyssey, 1996.-529 p.

2. Reserves of success and creativity//edited by G. Noyer – Moscow: Prosveshcheniye, 1989.-120 p.

3. V.P. Strezikozin. Actual problems in teaching at elementary school. Almaty, 1990.

4. Zh.B. Koyanbayev, R.M.Koyanbayev. Pedagogy. Almaty, 2001

5. S.Babayev, A.Kudiyarov. Pedagogy. Almaty: Daryn, 2004

6. A.Tabyldiyev. Game and civility. Almaty: Rauan, 1995