School of self-education reading as a mean of training teacher for professional activities

Abstract

At the Derzhavin Tambov State University, on the basis of which the regional branch of the Russian Reading Association was opened (the head of the local branch is Doctor of Sociology, professor of Derzhavin Tambov State University N.A. Stefanovskaya), relevant project “School of self-education reading” has been implemented for several years. Classes at this school are a necessity for all university employees: the project meets the needs of students’ academic work, research and pedagogical practice of graduate students and teachers, as well as intellectual amateur inquiries in the acquisition of cognitive and fiction literature for everyone who wants to improve reading skills. We disclose the experience of organizing work with student readers at the Theory and Methods of Pre-School and Elementary Education Department of Derzhavin Tambov State University. We reveal means and methods of reading activity of future teachers, the issues of reading circle formation and reader’s interests. We pay particular attention to the study of the motivation development of children and teenagers to read, which is one of the main skills of the future teacher. We name the sources of modern literary education of students and their teachers. The conclusions of the article are related to the transformation of educational reading into the process of improving the reading culture at all levels of reading.