The Essence and Specificity of Innovative Activity of the Teacher

Abstract

The article analyzes the specifics of the teacher's innovative activity. The views of domestic and foreign scientists regarding the interpretation of the concepts of pedagogical innovation and innovative activity were analyzed. Indicators of the teacher's readiness for innovative pedagogical activity are substantiated. The results of the study of teachers' attitude to innovations are also described. The purpose of the study is to analyze the essence and specifics of the teacher's innovative activity. This article describes that the innovative activity of teachers enriches pedagogical activity with new ideas, new content, and new technologies, it is specific and quite complex, and therefore requires special knowledge, skills, and abilities. The introduction of innovations in education is impossible without a teacher-researcher who possesses systemic thinking, a developed capacity for creativity, and a formed and conscious readiness for innovations. Innovative teachers of this type are called teachers with innovative thinking. It is emphasized that modern society needs new type of pedagogical specialists who are able to think systematically and constructively, quickly find the necessary information, make the right decisions, and produce fundamentally new ideas in various pedagogical directions. Solving this task requires new approaches, creative thinking, and a different attitude of the teacher towards his work. The need for innovative pedagogical activity from the point of view of education reform is determined by certain circumstances: firstly, Ukraine's entry into the humanitarian context of world civilization necessitated a radical change in the educational system, methodology and technology of the educational process in educational institutions of Ukraine. The structure of the teacher's innovative activity, which is manifested in the formation of components: motivational; technological; valeological; reflective; informational (which characterizes the informational culture of the innovative teacher and the effectiveness of his informational activity).