The facilitation competence of a high school teacher as a subject of pedagogical activity

The article highlights the competence-based approach in education as the guiding one for understanding the peculiarities of the professional activity performed by a specialist within the education field. The authors present the results of the analysis related to the scientific fund covering the issues of pedagogue's professional competence, the pedagogue being treated as a representative of higher education – a higher school / tertiary teacher. The originality of the higher school teacher's professional activity is highlighted. The authors have presented the results of the analysis on the specifics of the development of the higher education system in Ukraine; on the advantages and disadvantages of the national experience regarding students' training at the “Master” educational level; the connection between specific indicators of changes in higher school and the structure and types of teachers'-researchers' professional competences have been established. Analysing the modernization stages of the higher education system in Ukraine, the scholars consider the compliance of the current regulatory framework with the requirements of society to the higher school teachers. Within the system of professional competences, the authors especially emphasize the higher school teacher's facilitation competence – an integrative dynamic construct, conditioned by his / her personal profile as a subject of an activity which reflects his / her ability to take into account each student's individual features, a variable algorithm for his / her moving along the educational path.