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Background. The article addresses the issue of developing reflective skills of future teachers during their university training. The object of the research is students' reflective skills determining their disposition to professional pedagogical activity. The purpose of the article is to examine the dynamics of reflective skills development of students majoring in pedagogics through their reflective activities during the learning process. Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the research is reflective, competence-based and system approaches. The author used the following methods: comparative analysis of pedagogical facts on the research topic, testing, pedagogical experiment, and survey. The collection of empirical data was carried out by using various pedagogical tools such as the questionnaire for self-understanding in the process of communication (by William Stephenson); the experimental technique of cooperative reflection (by T.F. Usheva and others); the method of activity analysis (by S.D. Neverovich and others), and the questionnaire for individual manifestations of reflection by A.V. Karpov. The study included 73 students of pedagogical specialties of Irkutsk State University. Results. The results of the study demonstrate positive dynamics of developing reflective skills of students majoring in pedagogics. Organizing the learning process based on reflective activity allowed to develop personal reflective skills in the beginning. The next stage included developing intellectual, communicative and cooperative types of reflective skills. The process of developing cooperative reflective skills turned out to be the hardest to start. Mainly, this process is complicated by problems in reaching agreement of students' activity positions and planning their collective actions. The dynamics of developing reflective skills does not depend on the stage of higher education (studying for bachelor's or master's degree). Students of every stage of higher education demonstrated the same trajectory of developing the four types of reflective skills.

Objectives of the research: The aim of the theoretical research is to elicit the meaning of improving narrative competence, particularly narrative analysis for developing teachers’ reflective skills. Research issues or problems: The research question is posed as follows: Can a narrative, narrative analysis in particular, foster development of teachers’ reflective skills, and if so, how? Research methods: The method used in the research is hermeneutic analysis, which matches the field of content narrative analysis. A short description of the context of the issue: The content analyzed in the text is descriptions of narrative, narrative competence, and narrative analysis, as well as reflective skills such as being, disclosing speaking, testing, and probing – according to concept of Joseph Raelin, to some extent. An important goal of the research is to show the significant meaning of narrative competence, especially narrative analysis, for developing reflective skills by teacher–practitioners. The relationships between narrative, narrative analysis, and improving these skills can induce the need to add another skill, such as an implicative one, that would be crucial for further personal and professional development towards achieving a higher level of self-identity. Process of argumentation: The research began the selection of an appropriate scope of terms which match one another and can achieve the aim and answer the research question. The analysis of these terms led to building the relationships between narrative, narrative competence, and reflective skills, followed by narrative analysis and reflective skills that are important for personal and professional teacher development. That resulted in some implications that may be useful in educating teachers and students and for education in general. Findings: The results show the importance of the relationship between the aspects described above. Additionally, original, result occurred in creating a new reflective skill, such as the implicative one dedicated to further self-development. Conclusions and recommendations: The hermeneutic analysis revealed a correlation between the development of a teacher’s narrative competence, particularly narrative analysis, and practicing reflective skills. However, further research is needed to bring about changes in educating both teachers and students, which demands attention be paid to the authentic reflective/narrative approach in practice. This could be reflected in core curriculum subjects in university and secondary school education.

The aim of the article is to show the meaning of practicing silence, enhancing the quality of the reflective skills of the reflective practitioner. These skills – being, speaking, disclosing, testing, and probing – reveal one’s reflective competences, which require time and silence to be developed. The reflective practitioner is a person who can creatively interact with their true-self, others, the world, and God. Therefore, he or she finds time to distance themselves from many stimuli that bombard the mind and the outer environment and treats silence and quietness more as a challenge, rather than a threat to their own existence. Silence, perceived as a space for finding a new quality of one’s identity, is presented in the paper in different perspectives. The meaning of listening silence is especially worth noticing in the domain of education, which is preoccupied with large streams of information coming from varied sources that demand to be acquired. That is why this goal seems important for those who must cope with matters connected with teaching, learning, upbringing, and development. I attempt to deal with this briefly in a theoretical, practically-oriented analysis by suggesting some solutions covered in the material below.

The notion of reflective practice has been considered important in healthcare professionals’ practice. In nursing, particularly in developed countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, it has been set as a required competence for registration. Some action has been taken to support the achievement of competent and reflective practitioners, including embedding reflection in the nursing pre-registration education curriculum. In the past twenty years, there has been focus on using art-based initiatives to help student nurses to reflect on their clinical experience. Amongst the art forms, poetry has been used as a reflective tool. Many studies found that poetry could be helpful for developing students’ reflective skills. This literature review was conducted to identify the feasibility and promising benefit of using poetry to increase student nurses’ reflective skills. A comprehensive search of the literature and integrative review were undertaken for reviewing and discussing the evidence-based literature that supports the using of poetry as a reflective tool. A critical and narrative approach was undertaken for 16 relevant literature related to the importance of reflection in practice, the promising potential to enhance students’ reflective skills during academic education, and how poetry might promote students’ reflective skills. The literature review showed that using poetry in education have been carried out, and have yielded positive results. It is promising to note that the development of reflective practice, as required to be an attribute of a registered nurse, could be stimulated and achieved by the employment of poetry as a reflective tool in clinical education. The literature review also demostrated that using poetry as a reflective tool in nursing education is both feasible and worthwhile. Therefore, it is proven that using poetry as a means of reflection in an education setting is beneficial and valuable.

The article is devoted to the problem of information and communication technologies usage in the foreign language classroom. Some practical recommendations of students' pedagogical support provided through the computer training program are offered. The article responds to call for principles and teaching practices that address the worldwide problem of various aspects of a foreign language lesson. It draws on educational research and extensive experience with classroom practices to explain important principles for combining the process of speaking teaching, listening skills’ training and grammar practice. In contrast to other subjects the lesson of a foreign language should develop the understanding of languages and cultures through various experiences, fostering a positive attitude toward communication. For this reason, we should follow the individual approach in teaching English. According to this goal we suggest that usage of a training program helps providing harmonious social and psychological interaction between the teacher and his students, choosing the tasks according to the level of each student, organizing various activities in the foreign language classroom, carrying out objective control over the students’ progress.

The article aimsat deepening teachers’ responsibility and raising their awareness while organizing and managing the educational process, covering the reflective skills whose quality is reflected in teachers’ moral approaches. Morality performs a significant role when it comes to conducting the educational process. That is why discussion of issues of teachers’ knowledge seems to be important. Specifying its components means that we can see teachers‘ influence on pupils’ moral development, particularly when teachers are regarded as moral models by young students. Being conscious of this fact obliges teachers to perform self-moral developmental work which is then transferred into the pedagogic and didactic fields. The components of teachers’ knowledge understood in a perspective of creative, effective, reflective and practical implementation become meaningful.