PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES OF A TEACHER AND HIS TRAINING IN THE CONTEXT OF K. USHINSKY’S IDEAS

Abstract

The teaching staff training and their professional improvement is an important condition for the modernization of education. The current state of future teachers training requires an appeal to the creative heritage of K. Ushinsky in order to find rational technologies for the formation of pedagogical specialists’s important competencies. The purpose of the article is to analyze the professionally significant qualities of a teacher and to clarify the peculiarities of psychological and pedagogical training in the scientific heritage of K. Ushinskyi. It was determined that the holistic concept of K. Ushinsky absorbed the best European traditions; own experience of teachers` professional training; progressive reformation ideas proposed by a democrat teacher in the pedagogical periodicals of that time, and reflected in the author’s drafts of statutes, programs for the creation of qualitatively new teacher seminaries and institutes. An analysis of K. Ushinskyi’s works shows that a teacher can be a person who is close to the people, closely connected with them, knows the vernacular, lives in people’s interests. A teacher must be a highly educated person with encyclopedic knowledge, love his profession, always be interested in improving his own skill, have pedagogical and psychological tact. He must be a professional, have a clear idea of the pedagogical activity purpose, have a high level of practical training, master teaching methods, and be a skilled educator. The principles of humanism, nationalism, conformity to nature as the fundamental postulates of the teaching profession in the legacy of K. Ushinskyi are substantiated.