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Abstract
The article develops a methodological system for the use of adaptive curricula and virtual laboratories in teaching the subject “Informatics and its Teaching Methodology” to future primary school teachers. The author proceeds from the fact that student groups in pedagogical faculties are exceptionally heterogeneous in their initial informatic preparation, and that a single sequence of instruction therefore leaves part of the group without support and another part without challenge. Adaptivity is treated not as an automated selection of exercises but as a pedagogically governed variation of four parameters — the sequence of content, the level of task difficulty, the volume of instructional guidance and the form of feedback. The virtual laboratory is treated as an environment of professional trial in which the student models the behaviour of a primary school pupil, tests methodological decisions and observes their consequences without risk to real children. The article defines the target, content, procedural, technological and diagnostic components of the system, formulates the conditions of its functioning, and describes the sequence of its implementation and the criteria of its effectiveness.
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