TEACHER’S INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY AS A KEY CATEGORY OF PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION

This article presents a research of the essence of the term “innovative activity” in the context of pedagogical innovation, and the characteristics of principles and stages of running the innovative processes. On the grounds of scientific literature ananlysis, there have been clarified the objectives of pedagogical innovation, the criteria of an innovative activity, principles of management of innovative processes, and the laws, that these processes are subjects to. There has been substantiated the fact, that innovative activity provides successful development of implementation of innovative transformation in the sphere of education, enfavors the intending teachers’ formation of new ways of acting, innovative thinking and culture.