Professional and Pedagogical Competence as an Essential Component of Pedagogical Skills of the Teacher of Ukrainian Language and Literature in the System of Postgraduate Education

Стаття продовжує цикл публікацій автора, присвячений неперервному розвитку педагогічної майстерності вчителя української мови і літератури в умовах післядипломної педагогічної освіти. За використання кластерного аналізу розглянуто поняттєво-термінологічну кореляцію професійно значущих для вчителя української мови і літератури компетентностей і компетенцій у їх ієрархічному взаємозв’язку і взаємозумовленості. Відповідно до перерахованих характеристик компетентним учителем української мови і літератури вважаємо того, хто завдяки мобілізованим достатнім знанням, умінням, спеціальним професійним здібностям, особистісним якостям спроможний успішно здійснювати інноваційну професійно-педагогічну діяльність у сучасних соціокультурних умовах.This article continues the series of publications dedicated to the continuous development of pedagogical skills of the Ukrainian language and literature teacher in terms of postgraduate education. By means of cluster analysis the conceptual and terminological correlation of the professionally significant for the teacher of Ukrainian language and literature competencies and competence in their hierarchical interrelationship and interdependence are revealed. The basis of pedagogical skills of the teacher of Ukrainian language and literature is professional and pedagogical competence as an integral indicator of professional activity, personal, motivational and reflective sphere, which includes an integrated combination of in-depth, systematic, multifunctional knowledge, professional and pedagogical value orientations, acmeological invariants, acmeological professional positions, etc. providing a new quality of pedagogical impact, professional and personal growth throughout life. The basis of professional and pedagogical competence of teachers of Ukrainian language and literature are metacompetencies (key, polyfunctional invariant structural components) that make up a set of universal knowledge, skills, attitudes, values for competent solutions interdisciolinary range of problems and provide professional development of a teacher-scholar. Among the fundamental characteristics of metacompetence there were defined the following: availability of personal meaning, motivation, readiness of teachers to professional-pedagogical activity, value orientation, attitude; the procedural effectiveness, consistency. Subject competencies include highly specialized knowledge of the subject «Ukrainian language and literature», subject-specific skills and characterize creative professional-pedagogical activity of the teacher-scholar. Competencies are defined as characteristics that define an individual work style of Ukrainian language and literature teacher, the way to achieve professional goals and ensure the effectiveness of professional and pedagogical activity, pedagogical-professional communication and the realization of the personality