Reformation of the higher education system in Ukraine requires innovative changes in the priorities of educational policy, improvement of its content, information and technological support of the educational process. So the task to determine such methods of interaction between teachers and future teachers of preschool education institutions in order to stimulate their successful professional development arises. One of the tasks of modernizing higher pedagogical education is to develop students' information and communication competence. The problem of professional training of future teachers has been described in researches of the following scientists: V. Benera, O. Bogich, I. Bogdanova, A. Bogush, G. Bielienka, N. Gavrysh, T. Zharovtseva, L. Zdanevych, I. Kniazheva, T. Ponimanska, M. Roganova, T. Tanko, N. Lysenko, N. Malinovska and others. Issues of using multimedia presentations in the training of future specialists were studied by the following scientists: Y. Avsiukevych, V. Bykov, M. Zholdak, I. Zakharova, V. Klochko, A. Kolomiyets, Y. Mashbyts, I. Pidlasyi, O. Spivakovskyi, A. Khutorskyi and others. Multimedia presentation is a didactic tool that allows to transmit information in a visual and schematic form for improvement its perception and increasing its value. The effectiveness of using multimedia presentations is achieved when the following didactic conditions are met: – a harmonious combination of oral presentation of the material during a lecture session and knowledge acquired by students during practical and laboratory classes with the information of a multimedia presentation; – ensuring maximum implementation of multimedia presentation functions, in particular, stimulating thinking, memory and attention of the higher education students; – interactive orientation of multimedia presentation; – the rational ratio of the time allocated to lecturer to familiarize students with the content of topic of the lecture session and the time allocated for a multimedia presentation; – ensuring the perception of information using the maximum number of analyzers; – availability of information for perception and analysis by higher education students; – rational dosing of the volume of information presented using a multimedia presentation. Comparative analysis of the final exam scores of students in the control and experimental groups of the higher education students confirmed our hypothesis that multimedia presentations are the effective means of increasing the level of knowledge of students, forming their information and communication competence

Key words: Keywords: older preschool children, multimedia presentation, language development of children, pre-school teacher.