Professional Readiness of a Teacher for Innovative Activities: a Qualitative Aspect

The article actualizes the importance of professional readiness of a teacher for innovative activities. At the same time, attention is payed to the importance and role of innovation in the organization of a modern school, to its purposeful process of creating, using and distributing innovations in order to ensure highly effective training and education of young students. In this context, attention is drawn to the teacher's readiness for innovative professional activity as an integrative quality of his/her personality, as a regulator and condition for successful professional activity aimed at creating, implementing and distributing educational innovations, which has a positive effect on improving the quality of Education. The article emphasizes that the success of educational transformations reflected on the pages of a number of regulatory legal acts depends on a number of innovations introduced into the educational process. It is also emphasized that the introduction of innovative processes determines the need for appropriate changes in the professional activities of the teaching staff of the relevant educational institution. A lot of attention is paid to the components of the teacher’s innovative competence. It is noted that innovative activity is the internal force that shapes the teacher's position (professional and personal qualities), is a prerequisite for effective work, the maximum realization of opportunities and the disclosure of creative potential. In addition to everything else, the author of the article pays attention to the need to establish appropriate criteria aimed at the teacher's readiness for innovative innovations, emphasizes the importance of the appropriate level of technological readiness for innovative activities. The article emphasizes that the professional readiness of a teacher for innovative activities is a natural result of his special training, self-determination, education and self-education, and upbringing. It is noted that one of the important components of professional readiness of a teacher for innovative activities is innovative competence (a system of motives, skills, knowledge, skills, personal qualities of a teacher, which ensures the effectiveness of using new pedagogical technologies in working with young students). The article also stresses that one of the important levers to strengthen the innovative activity of a teacher is his motivational interests and value orientations, the main components that contribute to the implementation of innovative measures in the educational process of the school are named.