Universal competencies development among prospective foreign language teachers in the conditions of a pedagogical technopark

The paper is devoted to the study of issues related to the professional training of a foreign language teacher in the context of the transformation of pedagogical education. The idea of ensuring the outstripping rates of development of the pedagogical education system is substantiated. As a result of theoretical understanding of the problem, one of the solutions associated with the unification of education, science and high technologies and representing an innovative educational space of the technopark has been identified. The paper presents arguments in favor of the use of modern pedagogical technoparks: unified approaches to the subject, methodological and psychological-pedagogical training of teachers, improving the infrastructure of pedagogical universities, changing the forms of interaction between teachers and students. The author focuses on the importance of universal competencies development among prospective teachers, which are fundamental in pedagogical activity and in demand by employers. Special attention is paid to the potential of modern sites of the pedagogical technopark – a universal pedagogical IT cluster, a media laboratory, an audience for conducting a professional (demonstration) exam for universal competencies development. Practice-oriented tasks created using technopark equipment contribute to the development of students’ critical thinking skills, analysis of information, search for optimal ways to solve problems, teamwork and development of business communication in a foreign language. The conducted research allows us to conclude that the active use of technological resources in the modern educational space of the pedagogical university allows to develop universal competencies of prospective foreign language teachers and design new learning technologies.