Formation Of Teacher's Creative Competencies For Innovative Activity

Abstract

Teachers today work in conditions of rapidly changing education paradigms. This situation requires the teacher to have formed creative competencies for perception, understanding and implementation of innovations in the educational process inspired by new concepts and paradigms of modern education. The teacher who has formed creative competencies from the point of view of modern pedagogical theory is characterized by the following qualities and features: 1) a high level of performance; 2) the desire for a high-quality final result; 3) stress tolerance, ability to overcome difficulties; 4) creative attitude to business, work; 5) the pursuit of professional excellence; 6) the ability to make responsible, sometimes risky decisions; 7) sociability, ability to cooperate, collaborate, create; 8) the ability to quickly learn a new business; 9) the ability to self-education, self-realization, self-development, etc. The teacher’s ability to innovate is formed in the education system on the basis of educational, professional, social experience, as well as on the basis of self-education and self-development. Therefore, for the formation of creative competencies the future teacher needs to undergo specially organized training. To form creative competencies of future teachers for innovative activity, we implemented a special course ‘Management of pedagogical creativity and innovation in the pedagogical system’ aimed at introducing future teachers to the phenomenon of pedagogical creativity and the mechanism for the transformation of pedagogical creativity into innovation; at mastering by graduates of pedagogical universities new organizational forms, technologies and institutional mechanisms to improve the quality of education at all levels.