Informative and Structural Features of Teacher’s Readiness for Innovation
The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of the teacher’s readiness for innovative activities, to detail its characteristics, to present a structural and level analysis. The research objectives are to identify the content and structural features of the teacher’s readiness for innovative activities; substantiate the importance of readiness for innovative activities for the development of a teacher’s professional competence. Research methods are scientific literature study, analysis and generalization, structuring. The results of the study are as follows: the relationship between the professional competence of the teacher and his readiness for innovative activity is shown; the specificity of the teacher’s readiness for innovative activity is substantiated as the teacher’s personality state and as a personal quality characteristic of the teacher-innovator; the motivational-volitional, knowledge-based and operational-activity indicators of the formation of this readiness are highlighted, the characteristics are given to the reproductive, cognitive and creative levels of readiness.