Keyword: «pedagogical activity»

This article examines communication as an important area of human life, a factor of his professional success, his peculiarities in the modern world. The substantiation of competence in communication as a necessary component of effective pedagogical activity is given. The need to understand one's own charac-teristics and problems in communication is emphasized in order to increase communicative competence. The results of an empirical study of the ideas of future teachers about their own difficulties in communication and ways to overcome them arepresented. They consider their personal characteristics and lack of communication skills to be the main problems of communication. And they consider the correction of their own personal qualities, the acquisition of communication experience and the formation of communicative skills as the main ways to overcome existing problems.