INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN THE INNOVATIVENESS OF TEACHING STAFF

Abstract

The materials presented in the article are devoted to an urgent problem for developmental and educational psychology - the development of innovativeness of teaching staff. After all, the significant socio-economic phenomena occurring in modern Ukraine require teachers to have an appropriate level of psychological readiness of the individual to implement the ideas of developing education on innovative principles. The Concept "New Ukrainian School" states that the school should be at the forefront of social change, and its graduate should be an innovator capable of changing the world around him, developing the economy, competing in the labor market, and learning throughout life.
The content of this article presents a methodology for self-assessment of the professional innovative culture of a teacher, developed to identify the levels of development of innovativeness of pedagogical workers, as well as to build a psychological profile of the personality of an innovative pedagogical worker. Together with this methodology, in an empirical study of the innovativeness of pedagogical workers in institutions of general secondary, out-of-school, vocational, higher, postgraduate education, expert survey procedures, content analysis, diagnostics were used using a set of standardized psychodiagnostic techniques.
The purpose of the article was to identify differences in the structure and levels of development of innovativeness of teaching staff. In the process of completing the research tasks, individual psychological differences in the innovativeness of pedagogical workers qualified in specialties in the field of natural, humanitarian and physical and mathematical sciences were revealed, the result of which is the determination of their personal psychotypes (optimist, pessimist, realist, dreamer, critic, pedant) based on differences in communicative properties, peculiarities of interpersonal interaction, emotional-volitional characteristics, intellectual properties revealed among the studied teachers.