СОДЕРЖАНИЕ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНО-ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ПРЕПОДАВАТЕЛЯ ТЕХНИЧЕСКОГО ВУЗА В ИННОВАЦИОННЫХ УСЛОВИЯХ

Abstract

The interest to organization of higher technical education teacher’s activity in conditions of innovative changes was due to internal and external factors. They influence to the development of higher education as a whole and activity of teachers individually. The society has necessity in specialists of new format — socially and professionally active engineers with outlined personal features and unique competencies. This requirement is directing technical universities to preparation of engineers of new formation. The rapid scientific and technical progress, integration of innovations to educational process of higher technical university are presenting new requirements to the teacher activity, that are connected with necessity to work in conditions of high competition and to use opportunities of educational environment and infrastructure of higher educational institution for the purpose of organizing the interconnection of all participants of educational process. Technical university today is undergoing changes into the center of new technologies generation in preparation of technical staff. Now, it is being changed to a “hub” — the network of corporations that work with customers and suppliers of innovations the way they provide the transfer of technologies to modern market of consuming. These factors show high requirements to professional and pedagogical staff of university, teacher activity and their personal features and competencies. The article tried to analyze professional-pedagogical activity of higher education teacher, professionalism of which is undergoing the increase of requirements. We noted that teachers have necessity to tackle society challenges and adequately react on innovative changes in order to keep competitiveness and high demand. Based on found transformative changes at technical universities, problematic aspects of readiness of higher education teacher to complete professional and pedagogical activity in conditions of innovations were analyzed. The necessity of forming new environment, changing professional behavior of teachers at higher technical education was noted based on research of professional-pedagogical activity of teacher. It is connected with strengthening the role of teacher not only as a knowledge medium, but as an agent of changes in education and interpreter of innovative tasks.