TRENDS IN THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN EDUCATION

A modern teacher must be well-versed in the various branches of science whose foundations they teach and understand its potential for solving socio-economic, industrial, and cultural problems. But this is not enough – they must constantly be abreast of new research, discoveries, and hypotheses, and perceive the immediate and distant prospects of the science they teach. The most general characteristic of a teacher's cognitive orientation is a culture of scientific and pedagogical thinking, the main feature of which is dialecticism. This is manifested in the ability to detect the contradictions that comprise every pedagogical phenomenon. A dialectical view of pedagogical phenomena allows teachers to perceive it as a process in which continuous development occurs through the struggle between the new and the old, and to influence this process by promptly resolving all issues and problems that arise in their work.