Characteristics of Future Music Teachers’ Experience in Teaching Practice

AbstractTeaching practice is considered the most important part of pedagogical studies. The article reveals the characteristics of music pedagogy students’ experience in teaching practice based of their written reflections. General peculiarities of personality directiveness, related to orientation towards oneself, communication and activity, exert influence upon the development of specific, particular professional directiveness structures and form of their expression. Yet in Lithuania, peculiarities of pre-service teachers’ personal experience in teaching practice have not yet been evaluated to a wider extent. Subjective discourse of student training does not receive sufficient attention and the lack of consistent research, which allows to analyse peculiarities of students’ personality development during studies, is clearly observed. From the point of view of theory and practice, it is a significant issue in developing optimal teacher education and training strategies