Preparation of future biology teachers to their educational upbringing functions

An upbringing of the younger generation is an important task of modern education. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography of Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education has shaped a system of training of future biology teachers to prepare them for implementation of upbringing functions. The developed system includes psychological, pedagogical and methodological disciplines, on-the-job practices and research work, as well as final State attestation. All components of the system are interrelated; they influence and complement each other. Within a framework of disciplines of «Theory and Technology of Education» and «Pedagogical Psychology», future teachers are learning the essence of upbringing, its purpose and tasks, subject matter, principles, patterns, directions, methods, technologies and evaluation criteria. While studying the «Methodology of biology teaching» discipline students get acquainted with a system of upbringing education and master methodical approaches to the formation of various elements of bringing up: formation of ideology and patriotic education, morals and aesthetics, ecology and hygiene, labor and sex educations, etc. Magistracy course of «Methodology of biology teaching» is supplemented by optional «Upbringing and socialization of students in process of biology learning». The latter is designed to prepare students to yield upbringing and socialization of students by means of biology education. Future teachers are gaining practical skills on acquired knowledge during the periods of on-the-job practices, research work and final State attestation.