Creativity is a universal function of a person who leads to all forms of self-expression. In the modern youth’s consciousness, the concept “self-expression”, unfortunately, dominates the concept “creativity”, but both concepts can be elevated to a common valeological denominator: to detect, to express, to represent, and to develop oneself only by a natural evolutionary way, and not by blind inheritance, use of stimulants, abuse, virtual reality, etc. At the present stage, there is a general deterioration in ecology, mental hygiene, and human health, but this is now opposed not so much by individual areas of activity and science as by a holistic approach. In the non-medical sphere, such as education, this approach reveals itself by updating the methodological and praxeological implementations of a competent approach to teacher’s and student’s health saving. This individual social phenomenon is based on deep mental properties - awareness, need, intentionality, which are strengthened externally by personal factors: integration and interdisciplinary valeology, socionomy orientation of educational process, dialectical interaction of intra-personal and external personal dominants (cultural, social, psychological). Therefore, physical culture as a universal subject and a sphere of human activity, which concerns the training of all pedagogical and non-pedagogical specialties within the framework of higher education, has several advantages and contrasts with the cycle of disciplines only of the intellectual and competent plan. Despite not the difference in the scope of the concepts “physical culture” and “physical education”, despite the optional nature of university classes in this course, this discipline has virtually unlimited potential in future teachers’ education and training of valeological identity and culture.

In one form or another, the problem of an athlete’s assertiveness and confidence in one’s abilities and self is covered in almost any scientific theory, which directly or indirectly relates to personality. It is well-known that athletes differ by degree of self- confidence. The very concept of “confidence” exists in many languages all over the world. In some languages, there are even several words to denote it. At the same time, the concept of assertiveness concerning athlete training has been introduced only recently. Importantly, pedagogical correction of insecurities has created the basis for theoretical generalizations and concepts of self-confidence. In the 1960s, there originated the idea of confidence as a multi-faceted characteristic consisting of emotional, behavioural and cognitive components. Thus, assertiveness is a complex characteristic of an athlete’s personality which includes emotional (positive feelings when winning, self-affirmation, satisfaction with sports results), behavioural (a set of behavioural patterns that are effective in various socio-psychological situations), cognitive (self-presentation, self-concept components), as well as axiological (sociality, maturity) components. Self-confidence as a behavioural characteristic of an assertive personality is seen as one’s ability to demand and request more of oneself and others.

The problem deserves special attention, given the urgent need to improve the process of forming the professional competence of future elementary school teachers associated with the need to optimize the components of the educational system in accordance with the needs of students, employers and conditions of postmodern social development. The analysis of the available developments allowed us to determine that the use of innovative learning technologies aimed at the development of the personality of future elementary school teachers is considered promising. The content of professional competence of future elementary school teachers has been analyzed. It was found out that there is no unified approach to the definition of its structure, but the necessary elements are reflexive, operational, methodical, motivational. The development of mobility, creativity and formation of individual pedagogical style are considered necessary for a future teacher. The directions for improving the professional training of future elementary school teachers have been proposed. In particular, they include the definition of ways of forming students' motivation to master the future profession and further continuous professional development, as well as updating the content and structure of professional training in view of the features of postmodern education. The introduction into the educational process of such innovations as methods of active and intensive learning, cooperative learning and coaching technology, which showed positive results in the process of their use, was substantiated. Further research on this aspect consists of the development of methodological recommendations for updating educational programs for training elementary school teachers in the conditions of postmodern development of education and experimental testing of the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

The legal provision of valeological education of the future teacher is regulated by several national and international documents according to the hierarchical principle. Ukraine acquires rights, duties, and, most importantly, opportunities in the development of the authentic valeological space at all levels of political and social activity, gradually entering the world social, medical, psychological, and valeological community. In the state documents on education, considerable attention is paid to the implementation of a social request, a social order related to the search for new forms of training of a specialist in the educational and recreational field, who should perfectly possess the main and related professions, can solve the tasks of training specialists in conditions of competitiveness, integrativity, and intensity of activity. Now in our state, several laws stimulate the introduction of valeological education for the general masses of the population. Although in the Ukrainian legal field valeological issues are solved dualistically (as medical and extra medical, therapeutic and preventive, special and general), now there is every opportunity to make valeological culture a publicly available component of universal humanity. Naturally, the subject of reflection of various forms of social consciousness at different times was a person, his spiritual and/or physical perfection. So, within the framework of philosophy, as a joint foremother of the humanities and, to a large extent, the natural sciences, psychological, pedagogical, and medical theories of human health and existence developed.