THE PROFESSIONALLY SIGNIFICANT LEADERSHIP SKILLS OF THE PE TEACHER IN THE LEADER POTENTIAL STRUCTURE AND A STRATEGY OF ITS ACTIVATION

Abstract

The most profound changes happening in the life of modern society require from the graduates a readiness for effective using the opportunities in the new conditions of development of the modern education system. In the modern pedagogics of professional education, there has not yet been considered a complete conceptual aspect of the development of the leadership potential within any separate discipline or a separate course which would concretize and promote the search for concrete social-psychological requirements to the problem in the conditions of secondary professional education. The aim of the authors was to define the structure of the leadership potential of the physical education teacher through the definitions of professionally significant leadership skills of the PE teacher, the definition of the leader potential structure taking into account the specifics of the PE teacher’s activity. This allowed defining a strategy of activation of the leadership potential of the students, future PE teachers. In the article, the structure of the leadership potential of the PE teacher is revealed, the results are presented of questioning the directors and PE teachers concerning professional success and the influence on it of the leadership skills development, the specifics of a technique of activation of the leadership potential in the course of physical training are shown.