PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCIES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Važne odrednice kvalitete obrazovne ustanove jesu učitelji i kvaliteta njihovih radnih zadataka. Zahtjevi koji se postavljaju pred učitelje u 21. stoljeću postaju sve raznovrsniji i zahtijevaju širok raspon vještina u različitim područjima rada. Ciljevi su ovoga rada pregledom i analizom dostupne literature pružiti uvid u aktualna znanja o kompetencijama učitelja/nastavnika, ukazati na njihovu važnost, objediniti i prikazati rezultate istraživanja čiji su se autori bavili kompetencijama nastavnika te pokušati dati teorijsku i kritičku analizu, s posebnim naglaskom na pedagoške kompetencije. Pregledom literature koja se bavi problematikom učiteljskih kompetencija pokušali smo ukazati na njihovu važnost, razviti teorijske temelje i analizirati dosadašnja istraživanja kako bismo odgovorili na različita istraživačka pitanja. Proučavanje problematike pedagoških kompetencija pokazuje da su one u fokusu interesiranja pedagoga, a analiza ukazuje na posebnost u svakome pojedinom istraživanju te može koristiti i u budućim operacionalizacijama pedagoške kompetencije. Kompetentnost učitelja/nastavnika promatramo kao preduvjet održiva razvoja o kojemu ovisi perspektiva odgojno-obrazovne prakse u futurološkome smislu, a rad daje skroman doprinos popularizaciji ove problematike.Important determiners of the quality of educational institution are the teachers and the quality of their work assignments. The requirements imposed on teachers in the 21st century are becoming more versatile and demand a wide range of skills in different areas of work. By reviewing and analyzing available literature the aim of this paper is to give insight in current knowledge about the competencies of teachers, to point to its importance, to unite and demonstrate the results of research whose authors dealt with the competencies of teachers and to try to give a theoretical and critical analysis with a special focus on pedagogical competencies. Reviewing the literature that deals with the problem of teacher competencies, we tried to point to their importance, to develop theoretical basis and to analyze the research done so far in order to answer different research questions. The study of pedagogical competencies shows that pedagogical competencies are in the focus of interest of pedagogues, while the analysis shows the specificity in every particular research and can be used in future operationalizations of pedagogical competencies. The competence of teachers is seen as a prerequisite of sustainable development on which the future perspective of educational practice is dependent on, and the paper gives modest contribution to making the problem more known