FORMING “SOFT SKILLS” IN THE PROCESS OF TRAINING FUTURE TEACHERS AS A MODERN INNOVATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

. The article describes a topical problem of organization of personal development of future teachers in the process of professional training at the stages of bachelor’s-master’s-postgraduate studies. In the specification of this problem, the development of the so-called “soft skills” is taken. This definition originated in American management almost a decade ago and is now widely used throughout the educational world. These skills denote those universal and supra-subject formations that allow young professionals to better adapt to the modern realities of the labor market. The authors conclude that by creating conditions for the formation of soft skills in students, it is possible to provide them with a significant expansion of the range of variability of ways of life self-realization in a dynamically changing world. For future teachers, this is of particular importance, since it is they who will transfer these skills in the process of future professional pedagogical work.