Professional Activity of an Elementary School Teacher with Students of the Alpha Generation

Abstract

The study covers the relevance of the professional activity of primary school teachers with Alpha Generation students, presents the chronology of generations in Western Europe, and examines the studies on the features of the 21st-century generation with the active introduction of digital technologies into society. The purpose of the study is to analyse the characteristics of Alpha Generation children and to reason the methods and techniques of professional activity for modern primary school teachers. In the modern world, the field of digital technologies is rapidly developing, and children are already exposed to them from birth. In the course of the research, the authors analysed the scientific literature on philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy, examined the factors influencing the development of psychological characteristics of Alpha Generation schoolchildren. The authors also interviewed leading teachers and coaches on optimising the educational process in primary school. The authors recommend methods and techniques for organising the educational process in primary schools, which are aimed at achieving the purposes and implementing the objectives declared in the state standard for primary schools and the New Ukrainian School concept: nonviolent communication, storytelling, team building, game situations, interactive technologies, and methods of issue presentation. Attention is focused on finding ways to combine digital technologies with teaching methods that would contribute to the development of creative and critical thinking. The practical value of research consists in analysing the characteristics of modern primary school students born and raised in a digital society and presenting methods for activating their cognitive activity and developing subject-subject relations on a partnership basis

Keywords

• primary school students of the alpha generation
• professional activity methods
• modern primary school teachers
• nonviolent communication
• storytelling
• team building
• game situations