ФОРМУВАННЯ КРЕАТИВНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ У ПРОЦЕСІ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ СТУДЕНТІВ

The article is devoted to the research of the conditions for the formation of creative competence in the process of professional training of students of higher educational institutions. Attention is drawn to the fact that the task of higher educational institutions is not only to increase the level of professional competence of graduates, but also in the formation of a creative, mobile, socially sustainable personality, who is capable to adapt to the new conditions of modern life, ready for to self-extracting knowledge and self-development, to the effective application of this knowledge in educational and professional activities. Thereby, the question arises about the introduction of creativity in the list of leading competencies in the process of training future specialist. Creativity as a holistic, integrative personality trait, connected with the motivation, emotions, competence, creative thinking is considered. The article defines definition of creative competence, indicators of creativity and features of the structure of the creative personality are characterized. Also, an attention is focused on the fact that the basic condition of forming creative competence in professional training is the use in the educational process an innovative teaching method aimed on forming students' abilities to self -understanding the meaning of professionally meaningful information. The realization of these methods should take place in the framework of educational models which have creative in nature and provide quality improvement of higher education in general is emphasized in the article