Pedagogical skill as a level of professional competence

The article describes philosophic reasons of origin of pedagogical skill as level of pedagogue`s professional competence. Since Ancient Greece time, when philosophers and thinkers got interest of art nature of human, problem of skill has been an important pedagogical question which defined by interpretation: is skill art or craft, theoretical knowledge or experience conclusion of practice? The resolution of the conflict between the understanding of pedagogical mastery as an art based on theoretical knowledge and practical activity, as a manifestation of a craft, revealed the need to determine the essence of pedagogical mastery as the main criterion of a teachers professional competence, as well as the level of his professional skills and abilities. The article analyzes the ancient ideas of ancient Greek philosophers about mastery, among which the arguments about art in the works of such famous thinkers of Ancient Greece as Aristotle and Plato are of greatest interest. Discussing mastery, technical and creative work, Aristotle introduced a concept that most accurately reflects legal art and which later became the basis for the emergence of pedagogical mastery techne. Later, already in the works of philosophers and the first teachers, together with the development of pedagogy as a separate branch of knowledge, pedagogical mastery became one of the main subjects for the thinking of prominent thinkers of the New Age. The results of the study testify to the necessity of understanding the pedagogical mastery, the formation of which is possible based on the scientific and practical training of the teacher. The obtained conclusions are the basis for further studies of pedagogical mastery and open a wider field for discussion of the question of what is primary for the formation of pedagogical mastery theory or practice