Management of innovation activity in establishments of general secondary education of Ukraine

The essence of the concepts “innovation”, “innovation activity of the pedagogue”, “innovation potential of the institution of education”, “modern approaches to the management of innovation activity” have been clarified in the article. It has been grounded that the basis of inno-vation activity is the ability to construct the conceptual foundations of pedagogical innovations, which include diagnostics, forecasting, devel-opment of the program of the experiment, analysis of its implementa-tion, as well as realization of the innovation program, tracking the course and the result of its implementation, correction and reflection of innova-tion actions. The main functions of innovation management, which in-clude analytical-forecasting, planning, organization, control and regula-tion, have been characterized. The eight main stages of management of innovation activity have been singled out and analyzed. For its imple-mentation it is necessary to decide on the ability of pedagogues to crea-tive work in general, to prove the necessity of changes, to offer the per-fect monitoring system of the innovation process of the institution of education. The article distinguishes five levels of teacher’s innovation activity: zero, adaptive, reproductive, heuristic, and creative