Abstract:

The quality of functioning of any educational level is mostly determined by the level of teachers’ professionalism.This article discusses various approaches to a certain professional competence of a university teacher, emphasizes the multifaceted nature of the research. Pedagogical activity is regarded as an activity aimed at the formation of a socio-psychological attitude of students to the learning process. From this point, the structure of the teacher's professional competence is represented by cognitive, affective and conative components. The content of these components that was discussed in domestic and foreign studies is analysed. It is noted that one of the criteria for assessing the quality of education is the results of student surveys. A two-stage procedure for ranking students of professional and personal qualities that a modern teacher should have is proposed. The technology of conducting student surveys is described. Criteria for the selection of behavioral indicators characterising the manifestation of cognitive, affective and conative competences are outlined. The technology of forming the content of questionnaires based on the statistical processing of the results of each stage of the experiment is proposed.There was formed a system of indicators that characterises the professionalism of a modern teacher in the focus of student opinion.

Keywords:

Competence of a professional teacher, competency characteristics, student questionnaires.