Abstract:

The article actualises the issues of the necessity to pay more attention to the formation of humanistic orientation of a future teacher’s personality, in particular a foreign language teacher’s personality. The relevance of the problem is caused by the contradiction between the requirements of society to professionally significant qualities of a teacher as a carrier of humanistic ideals and the content of professional training in teacher education, which often retains subject-object relations in the quasi-professional activity of students. At the same time, in the light of modern requirements, the humanisation of school means strengthening the personal approach to students, addressing the personality of the child, and recognising the active and equal role of the student in the educational process. And the key role in this process is assigned to the personality of the teacher, whose mission is not only to transmit information, but in his ability as a creative thinking person to implement an individual approach to each child and ensure the participation of everyone in the learning process. The aim of this article is to theoretically substantiate and present the results of experimental testing of the model of foreign language teachers’ professional training. Implemented within the framework of students’ quasi-professional activity, this experimental model not only reflects the specifics of their future pedagogical activity, but also forms professionally significant qualities of the teacher’s personality. Pedagogical situations reflecting the nature of subject-subject relations (communicative-organisational, focusing on individual interests and needs of the child) as well as a set of appropriate educational technologies are identified and described; the results of conducted on the site of Kazan Federal University experimental work with students specializing in Teacher Education are studied and presented.

Keywords:

Teacher, humanistic orientation, communication, foreign language teaching, quasi-professional activity.