ACHIEVING A FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER’S PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AS A PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM

The problem of achieving a primary school teacher's professional identity at various levels of an axiological relatedness and stages, with which key markers allowing to estimate the effectiveness of this process are bound is discussed in the paper. Achieving professional identity is associated with building up the creative potential of a teacher's personality, including familiarizing with teaching culture, mastery of communication techniques, development of intellectual emotionality, self-control, professional optimism, critical thinking, formation of a system of views on the world and personal “I”, understanding various facts, phenomena, processes in the social environment, and professional and educational activities. The author comes to the conclusion that the key role in achieving professional identity by a future teacher is played by: - understanding the importance and peculiarities of the teaching profession in the conditions of multicultural development of the society; - the vision of oneself in the profession on the theoretical-and-methodical, structural-and-logical, system-oriented, project-and-technological and reflexive levels; - motivation and ability to perform qualitatively their professional duties: organizational, educational, training; - purposefulness for self-realization and professional growth in the system of methodical activity; - orientation on the harmonization of emotional-value, spiritual-moral, moral-ethical and cognitive spheres of interaction.