PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF THE SOCIAL TEACHER AS A PRIORITY FOR SUCCESSFUL PROFESSIONAL SELF-FULFILLMENT

Abstract

The category “professional competence of social pedagogue” is analyzed in modern domestic and foreign researches and introduction of a competent approach in the system of professional training of future social pedagogues. The transition to a competent approach in education means reorienting the content from the process to the result of education, and the result of the formation of professional competence is the ability of a specialist to meet the dynamic conditions and demands of the labor market. The system of professional training of social educators involves the unity, interdependence and continuity of the system functioning and structural components, which is a prerequisite for the professional-personal formation of a specialist, supplementing and deepening vocational training, ensuring the possibility of lifelong learning, the transition of a specialist to a new, higher level of professional competence, variation and possibilities of intensification of these transitions.