VASYL SUKHOMLINSKY ABOUT THE TEACHER'S PEDAGOGICAL SKILL

Abstract

The development of the national education system must be based on the priorities of the quality of teaching and all-round personal development, such as pedagogical skills. Nowadays there is a growing request for a skilled teacher, competitive professional, able to educate a personality pupils. One of the major challenges of our time is pedagogical skills in the broad and narrow sense and appeal to heritage of the past. The figure of V. Suhomlynskyi belongs to the past which is associated with the present. The attention is paid to the actuality of V. Sukhomlynskyi’s ideas for elaboration of modern approaches of pedagogic professionalism development. The pedagogic heritage of V. Suhomlynskyi is a storehouse of knowledge, ideas, views of professional teacher’s attitude. Basing on the ideas of the famous pedagog the professional activity of teachers is enlightened as an important criteria of forming the pedagogical culture, professionalism and pedagogical skills. According to V. Sukhomlynskyi, the teacher it is a person, who independently self-improves and strives to stimulate the pupils to that, who rises the own pedagogical culture and reading competence. The analysis of scientific heritage of the great teacher allowed determine the structure of pedagogical skill that includes the following components: humanism, psychological and pedagogical, methodological and professional competence, personal qualities, individual pedagogical style, didactic mastership. Sukhomlynskyi notices that special importance belongs to pedagogical culture, the main factor of forming and development of pedagogical culture is self-education of teachers, professionalism and pedagogical skills. Besides mastering certain knowledge and special ways of thinking it is necessary for teachers to have deep transformations of the accumulated experience, development and personal enrichment about themselves as professionals. The outstanding pedagogue singled out ways of formation and improvement of pedagogical skill: continuous lifelong education through self-education, self-improvement and, self-development, intellectual growth and humanity. Long-term pedagogical experience gave V. Sukhomlynskyi to assert basis, that far not everybody can fine manage with the duties of teacher, іt requires professions from the man of the large soul. The power of teacher is in his knowledge and love for children. The findings indicate that most pedagogical ideas, generated by the great teacher back in the late twentieth century, even now have not lost their relevance and educational value and serve as a basis for educational theory and guidance for teaching practice. The thoughts and ideas of V. Suhomlynskyi remain relevant for the further pedagogical research.