ETHICAL COMPETENCE - A BASIC COMPONENT OF TEACHER PROFESSIONALISM

Abstract

The article considers ethical competence as a basic component of the teacher's professionalism. The process of forming ethical competence should be systematic and requires the application of a holistic mechanism of professional development of the student's personality during training. The teacher's abilities regarding ethical competence, as well as its components, are highlighted.
 A necessary condition for the formation of students' ethical competence is the use of the latest pedagogical technologies and teaching methods in addition to traditional ones. The process of forming a teacher's ethical competence is complex, dynamic, multifaceted and multifactorial. The substantive basis of ethical competence is pedagogical ethics. Pedagogical ethics studies the features, content, principles and functions of pedagogical morality, the nature of the teacher's activity and his moral relationships in the pedagogical environment, develops the basics of pedagogical etiquette, which is a set of rules for teacher communication and behavior. Ethics is not reduced to a certain system of sanctions in pedagogical activity, because its task is to explain the social and psychological expediency of observing certain professional norms and rules. It is ethics, from the standpoint of a holistic approach to the individual, that insists on considering the education and upbringing of the individual as its spiritual saturation, which unfolds in spiritual dialogue, communication between equal subjects. The vocation of a teacher is not only the transfer of knowledge, abilities and skills, but also the comprehensive development of the student's abilities and capabilities, the upbringing of a decent, responsible, conscious citizen of the country. The professional activity of a teacher is based on the supremacy of universal human values, norms and principles of morality. When performing it, the teacher acts as the bearer of responsibilities in relation to: the student, the student's parents, the professional pedagogical community as a whole and individual teachers, himself, society.