Modern requirements for the future teacher in the united Europe of the XXI century

Abstract

The article updates and characterize the current requirements for the future teacher in a united Europe. The main tasks in teacher education and pedagogical activity in the context of European integration processes are revealed. It has been paid attention to the process of integration of higher education into the European educational space as a qualitatively new stage of international relations in this field. Accordingly, the main provisions of the Pedagogical Constitution of Europe are emphasized, which presents a list of new requirements for the personality of a teacher in a united Europe of the XXI century, whose high professionalism and competencies are aimed to form a full-fledged subject of the European process. A number of competencies and notable personality traits of the future European teacher are presented, as well as the types of skills of the future specialist «hard skills» and «soft skills» and their components. The formula «Four K» of the Educational Alliance Program «Partnership for Learning in the XXI Century» is considered, which contains: creativity, cooperation, critical thinking and communication skills. It was found that the processes of European integration increase the tendency to increase professional requirements for the future teacher as a person of high educational level and spiritual and moral qualities, as the most important tool of educational influence on the younger generation, where professionalism is the steps of pedagogical work, so it has the appropriate levels and indicators. The professionalism of the future high education teacher is characterized as a manifestation of creative readiness of the individual to productively solve pedagogical tasks and form in the individual the level of competitiveness that will allow him to actively pursue professional activities, taking into account modern requirements for the teacher and current challenges.