Confidence in the Professional Competence Structure of a Teache

Abstract

This article is dedicated to one of the most important characteristics of teacher's pro­fessional competence - the analysis of its communicative sphere. They suggest that peda­gogical communication is the basis of professional competence.

The analysis of works related to the problem of pedagogical communication and teach­er's pedagogical interaction permitted to establish generally accepted criteria of teacher's communicative competence in pedagogical psychology. The authors show that, these gen­erally accepted criteria of the communicative competence are correlated with the system of teacher's confidential relations. After discovering these interrelations, the authors built em­pirical model of communicative competence, teachers' level of the credibility towards them­selves and the level of trust to the Others are the foundations of this model. It is shown, that the distinguishing features of teacher's communicative behavior depend on particularities of the teacher's deformation of the confidential relations, and this is the particularity that must be corrected in order to improve teacher's professional and communicative competence.