Training of students – prospective teachers for summer teaching practice in children’s health camps

The paper deals with the role of summer teaching practice in student’s personal and professional qualities development, in activating his/her work on himself/herself, in acquiring the student’s first professional experience, in professional and pedagogical development of the personality of the prospective teacher, and substantiates the need for purposeful, systematic and consistent training of students for the implementation of professional activities of the counselor during summer teaching practice. The authors have revealed possibilities of psychological and pedagogical academic courses and specialized academic courses implemented in different universities («Organization of educational work in a summer health camp», «Organization of summer holidays for children and adolescents», «Teaching for summer practice», «Fundamentals of counselor activities») as well as forms of practical training of students for professional activities of a leader (instructive camps, instructive and methodological camps, instructional fees, field workshops) in effective preparing students for summer teaching practice. The experience of Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education in teaching students – prospective teachers for summer pedagogical practice in the process of mastering the content of the academic course «Fundamentals of Leadership Activities» is presented. As a result students can carry out independent educational work with children and adolescents during summer holidays, they can implement forms, methods and techniques of educating schoolchildren in a summer health camp; they have a responsible and creative attitude to educational work with children and adolescents.