Diagnostics of the readiness for self-improvement of the future teacher in the conditions of COVID-19

Abstract

The society's need for competitive specialists capable of solving urgent issues requires focusing efforts on solving the most pressing problems in education in today's pandemic conditions. The psychological and pedagogical literature has repeatedly emphasized the need for self-improvement as a component of self-education of a person in general and a teacher in particular. One of the most important factors in the success of further professional activity is the formation of students' readiness for professional self-improvement. The issues of training future teachers remain topical, because both the intellectual, moral and spiritual development of children and youth, the socio-economic well-being of the country depend on their activities. Since the attention of specialists is focused on the personal potential of a person, the urgent is the problem of the formation of future teachers' readiness for self-improvement in the process of individualization of professional training pedagogical science. For this, the methods of theoretical research of profile sources were used, and also theoretical and ascertaining experiments were carried out. It is proved that the training of a future teacher should be focused on the personality, the recognition of a person as the highest value in society, and providing conditions for personal self-improvement of the future teacher is one of the priority areas in the educational process of the university

The role of the acmeological approach in future teachers’ professional development

“…In this study's framework emphasis was placed on the strong correlation between personality and learning approaches based on the acmeological approach. It will contribute to the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs of modern people (Schoofs et al, 2022) and the realization of their professional potential in different conditions of functioning of society and personal life circumstances (Bilyk et al, 2021;Shtal et al, 2018). Promoting the professional qualities of future teachers to expand their ability to teach students and form the right values in times of information oversaturation and the negative effects of the media and the Internet.…”

“…The need for constant self-improvement based on the significance of professional and pedagogical activities sets strict requirements for teachers' levels of professionalism and personal qualities (Russell, 2022;Tsiuniak, 2020). The ability of self-improvement is an integrative characteristic of a professionally mature person, who can consciously set certain goals and objectives, successfully perform professional activities and improve in them (Bilyk, Tkachov, & Tkach, 2021;Tsiuniak, 2020).…”