CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE

Abstract

Determining the content and structural components of the future primary school teachers' emotional competence will help organize the process of future teachers' training for successful professional activity, personal self-realization. The purpose of our article is to study theoretical substantiation content and structural components of future primary school teachers' emotional competence. Methods of analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, systematization and generalization of theoretical material, the study of experience on the researched question were used to solve this problem, which allowed forming their own view on the content and structure of future teacher's emotional competence. Primary school teachers' emotional competence is understood as a dynamic combination of views, values, knowledge of emotions, ability to express, understand, manage pupils own emotions and emotional state, which shapes the ability to successfully organize the educational process on an emotional basis, empathy principles, to realize themselves in professional activity. The concept contains two components: personal, which includes the ability to understand, express, identify, stimulate their emotions and feelings, manage them and interpersonal – the ability to perceive, understand the emotional state of pupils, their parents, colleagues, to understand the motives of their behaviour, effectively communicate with them, interact, solve problems, influence emotions and feelings to achieve educational goals. The emotional competence structure of a future primary school teacher is represented by such interrelated components as cognitive, value, activity.