MOTIVATION OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN THE DENTAL FIELD

Abstract

Many external factors exert an active influence on the process of transformation of educational activities, in particular, on the training of specialists of higher educational institutions. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic and full-scale wars on the territory of Ukraine became the factors that provoked the transition to a distance and mixed format of education in the training of specialists in higher education institutions. The result of the transition to this form of education was the low motivation of education seekers for active educational activities, due to the fact that the use of gadgets gives immediate access to information, and the need for its active assimilation simply disappears. Higher institutions of professional education, in particular in the medical field, the field of study is dentistry, have the task of motivating future specialists to actively learn theoretical material, that is why teachers implement techniques that activate the educational activity of students even in distance and mixed learning formats. Motivation involves activation to movement, it can be caused by both external and internal factors. Taking into account the peculiarities of the motivation of educational activities, the main factors of influence are external factors that, in the future, activate the internal motivation of the student of education and contribute to his self-development, therefore there is a need for certain external motives that can activate students of the dental field. In this article, we offer a mechanism for motivating students of medical education, the direction of training in dentistry, to active educational activities due to the introduction of the technique of the rating approach, the use of external motivation techniques through creative and scientific projects, as well as due to internal motivation, which involves mastering best practices and striving for ideals.