The development of pedagogical competence of students-choreographers in the process of studying folk dance

The current state of the labor market dictates the necessity to develop personal and professional competencies in the current educational process of Kazakhstan. A modern specialist should both be educated and capable of generating knowledge and be able to respect and appreciate the opinions of other people, to negotiate with them to reach agreement, be active, emotional, communicative, and organized. Moreover, currently, much attention is paid to pedagogical competence in the professional training of a specialist – a future choreographer. The authors consider the development of personal and professional competencies of a future choreographer in the process of studying folk dance at the university as the main way to form pedagogical competence. Theoretical studies of the development of the future choreographer pedagogical competence in the process of studying Kazakh folk dance through the unity of the competencies identified by the authors – intellectual-pedagogical, communicative (empathy, extraversion), informational, and reflective – were carried out. The formation of these competencies helps in transforming knowledge about the content of Kazakh dance into knowledge about teaching and educating through Kazakh dance. Studying the history of national ballet art, analyzing its libretto, comparing and collating with modern national ballets will allow the future teacher-choreographer to reflect adequately in choreography the spiritual and moral foundations of national identity, culture, traditions, authenticity of epic traditions and awakening of national artistic and aesthetic consciousness. Through the involvement of students-choreographers in creative groups, creative thinking and personal qualities are awakened and activated, educational and creative activities are carried out, difficulties are overcome, and creative tasks are solved. The authors formulate proposals for the development of professional and personal qualities of students-choreographers. The authors consider the development and understanding of spiritual and cultural values, activity, self-analysis, performance skills of students-choreographers in the process of studying national dance at the culture and arts university as a solution to the problem of developing pedagogical competence.