FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTIONAL TEACHERS IN THE CONDITIONS OF MODERN HIGH SCHOOL

In the article the issues concerning the formation of professional competence of the future primary school teachers under the conditions of modern higher educational establishment are considered. The concept of the pedagogical competence of the primary school teacher is defined and the possibilities enabling the formation of the students' professional and pedagogical culture in the modern higher school are studied. The aim of the article is to define the concept “professional competence of the future primary school teacher” improving the level of professional competence of future primary school teachers which is one of the main areas for reforming modern primary education. That is why, at the current stage of modernization of the education system in Ukraine, issues of increasing and developing the professional competence of future primary school teachers are becoming particularly acute and urgent. It seem to be important to propose the stages of forming the professional competence of the future primary school teacher. The main indicator of the qualification level of any modern specialist is his / her professional competence. The competence of a specialist can be represented as a complex of professional knowledge, skills, personal, professional qualities. The experimental program included pedagogical tasks, situations and was held in three stages. On the basis of diagnostics and testing, the levels of the formation of the professional competence of the future primary school teacher were designated, particular work aimed at improving them was carried out. The analysis of the experimental material proved the relationship between the introduction of educational processes, pedagogical situations, exercises, tasks and the formation of professional competence of the future primary school teachers. It was found that the more various and interesting pedagogical tasks, situations are, the more active the students perform them; therefore, the professional competence of the future primary school teacher is better formed. The competence of a specialist can be represented as a complex of professional knowledge, skills, relationships, professional qualities of an individual. The professional competence of the future primary school teacher is a factor in improving the quality of education and includes profession- and content-centred, technologyoriented, profession- and person-oriented components. The conducted research has shown the importance of introducing the results into the practice of modern high school, but it does not exhaust the content of the problem being studied. In the future, this work requires the development of specific situations that are person-centred in the development of professional culture of future professionals.