MENTAL ACTIVITY AS THE BASIS TO FORM PROFESSIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF A TEACHER

Abstract

The article discusses a topic of professional consciousness of a future teacher as one of the modern problems of modern society. The authors consistently cover the issue of formation of a teacher’s thinking abilities, and how it qualitatively affects the development of his pedagogical reflection. This gives the right to say that it is necessary to analyze pedagogical thinking as a form of consciousness and professional activity in order to study the phenomenon that determines the formation of a teacher – “thinking activity”. The article presents a pedagogical analysis of views of famous teachers, philosophers and thinkers, who have studied teachers’ mental activity in different years. All this leads the authors to the conclusion that pedagogical thinking cannot be reduced to a simple set of procedures and operations of thinking. Pedagogical thinking is a complex education that reflects the desire for autonomy and independence of the subjects of our activity.