Pedagogical potential of the success situation in the teacher professional and creative self-realization

Abstract

Introduction and problem statement. The article combines scientific and pedagogical ideas on the success situation as a way to organize the creative activity of the teacher's personality and a form of his professional self-realization. Nowadays, self-realization as a process of revealing intentions and talents of an individual takes place in conditions of fierce competition and high demands of business, labor market. Therefore, besides the main professional profile, the teacher needs to master many related professional and personal competencies, hard and soft skills, correlating desires, goals and opportunities. Methodology. As the scientific literature analysis result, the author deduces three meaningful interpretations of success as: 1) an activity characteristics; 2) an experience of joy; 3) a motive; and does not reduce it to the attributes of material prosperity and other quantitative indicators. Here, success is a prerequisite for personal development and creative self-realization. Based on the above, the success situation is stated as the leading condition for creative self-realization. Methods. The paper presents the author's classification of success situations by types of joy in educational and pedagogical activity. At teaching creative professions, the success situation can be developed in a set of techniques: removing clamps (through exercises to restore breathing); exercises for gradually increasing difficulties; accounting the physical condition and emotional well-being of a dancer/actor; evaluating not the result, but the physical effort and emotional costs to achieve a successful result; optimistic attitude for the future. Results. The article emphasizes that the success achievement contains both the external manifestations of social prestige and material wealth, and the individual internal reserves. The study shows that success, in addition to the activity result and its evaluation, contains a motive, meaning, purpose and means to achieve it; which are accompanied with feelings of joy by those who study, and pedagogical techniques to create a situation of success serve as the basis for the teacher professional competence and creative self-realization.