May 2020
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The article proposes a solution to the problems related to the formation of students’ readiness to implement and integrate scientific knowledge into their pedagogical activity. The authors state that in the motivational environment of teaching practice, along with integration, ‘mental convergence’ takes place. Mental convergence is a mental rapprochement between the members of the educational community, such as students and their parents as well as staff of educational institutions, promoting the development of motivation of future teachers. Perfect conditions for knowledge and skills integration are created by application of modern interactive technologies in the multimedia educational environment of the Internet era. The experimental work, including the teaching practices of the 2016/17 and 2017/18 academic years, has been conducted in three stages. In 2019, in the final (third) stage, a master-class was organized in the form of a methodological seminar. Surveys, interviews, pedagogical observation, and testing of students were conducted in order to define the reasons for the students’ reduced motivation to work as teachers. Pedagogical practice is a complex process presented as a condition for theoretical knowledge integrating in pedagogical activity at substantive and procedural levels. The authors are convinced that in the motivational environment of pedagogical practice, along with scientific knowledge actualization and integration, ‘mental convergence’ (Gershunsky) of subjects of the educational community takes place, which is embodied in future teachers’ skills to work with children.