Elena Tryhmanova

The relevance of the problem under study is due to the implementation of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education and the need to search for new forms, methods and technologies in interacting with modern students in the conditions of educational activities of the university. The analysis of modern scientific literature, as well as the practical experience of the authors of the article allow us to state that the socio-economic conditions of modern society have a significant, and not always positive, impact on the quality of the value-motivational choice of a profession by modern students. Their socio-psychological and personal characteristics, cultural and educational level, are the reason for their lack of readiness to master the chosen profession and the need for systematic educational work of higher school teachers with students as an integral part of the training of specialists in the humanities. The purpose of the article is to attract the attention of higher school teachers to the problem of readiness for educational work with students in the context of university education. The article informs about the development and testing of the program "School of the tutor", which contributes to the formation of ideas about the organization of educational work in the university, taking on role of the educators by the curators, and the developing their organizational skills; formation and development of their need for self-improvement and personal growth. The leading methods of studying the problem of the teacher’s readiness for educational work in a university are the study of psychological and pedagogical literature, empirical methods of psychological diagnostics, the development and implementation of a program for training university teachers for educational work with students, pedagogical experiment, and the reflexive method. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the presenting of authors’ approach to the criteria-based assessment system and the characteristics of the levels of formation of teachers' readiness for educational work. The practical significance of the article lies in the analysis of the approbation results of the program for preparing teachers for educational work with students “School of the tutor”. This program contributes to the purposeful development of the three main components of the university teacher’s readiness for educational work with students: motivational, methodological and technological, and also makes it possible to repeat this experimental experience for other studies.