THE FORMATION OF PEDAGOGICAL POTENTIAL IN THE PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS

At the present time, there is the demand not just for a teacher, but for a teacher-researcher, a teacher-engineer, a teacher-innovator, and a teacher-psychologist. These qualities of a teacher can be developed in the result of graduating from the teacher training university or teacher training college only in the conditions of the creatively and technologically organized educational process in preschool institution. Moreover, the condition is that a teacher is engaged in active scientific and methodical, exploratory, experimental, innovative work, and learns to look for his/her “professional face”, own educational tool. The paper analyzes main approaches to the concept of “pedagogical potential”, the conditions for pedagogical potential formation in the process of vocational education, the professional formation and development, the formation of the teacher’s culture of investing in “yourself”, the updating of personal potential at the stage of continuous training activities through the development and implementation of social and educational projects in the preschool educational institutions. The author considers personal potential in the structure of professional pedagogical activity as the individual psychological characteristic of a teacher, the new target orientation of a teacher, the system integral quality, and the subject of self-valuable forms of activity, which includes the potential of responsibility and independence, rational potential responsible for the a teacher’s ability to act using the humanistic considerations in his/her professional activity and allows keeping the impact of rational orientations and practices in the rapidly changing social conditions.