The Main Role of Professional Competence Teacher of the Modern Times

The author of the article highlights his understanding of the professional competence essence; he also clarifies its development in the current educational modernization. Taking into account the peculiarities of the teaching context (combining teaching per se and research), he focuses on structural components of a teaching competence in a high education institution while he emphasizes the important personal features of a teacher. As you know, teaching is a management activity and for its successful implementation the teacher must possess organizational competence, including knowledge in the field of education management: the concept of management, its goals, importance, functions and features of education management; the structure of the organizational activity of the teacher. The teacher should be able to perform actions on: defining the purpose of the educational and cognitive activity of students; plan the content, methods, teaching aids for the discipline being taught; prepare and conduct various types of classes, organize joint activities of students, monitor the implementation of works and assess the results, ensuring the academic discipline in a creative setting. The pedagogical competence of the teacher is a combination of knowledge, skills and pedagogical and research skills necessary for him to perform the function of training and education of students.