PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING OF VOCATIONAL TEACHERS: A DEFINITIONAL ANALYSIS

The article presents the results of the definitional analysis of the concept of “psychological and pedagogical training of vocational teachers”. The essence of the terms “vocational education”, “vocational teacher”, “vocational training”, “vocational and pedagogical training”, “psychological and pedagogical training of vocational teachers” is substantiated. “A vocational teacher is a mobile specialist who organizes and carries out engineering and pedagogical activities of students, is engaged in self-education, is creative in solving professional problems, knows how to cooperate in a team and communicate in an educational and information environment”. Specified components of psychological and pedagogical training: basic psychological and pedagogical training; fundamental psychological and pedagogical training; scientific psychological and pedagogical training; functional psychological and pedagogical training; creative psychological and pedagogical training. It is determined that “psychological and pedagogical training of future vocational teachers is a complex process of combining different types of activities of a future specialist in the field of vocational education, which results in the formation of psychological and pedagogical readiness of a future vocational teacher”. Keywords: vocational teacher; vocational education; vocational training; vocational and pedagogical training; psychological training; psychological and pedagogical training of vocational teachers.