Keyword: «teacher of children's public association»

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of diagnosing teachers' readiness to work in children's public associations, which acquires special importance in the context of rapid changes in modern Russian society. The establishment of a unified children's movement through the draft law ‘On the Russian Movement of Children and Youth’ (‘Movement of the First’) increases the need for highly qualified personnel with the necessary knowledge and skills for successful work in this area. The aim of the article is to identify the key competences for teachers of children's public associations and to work out a set of diagnostic techniques to assess the degree of their development. The main method of the research was theoretical and analytical approach, which allows to identify the structure of competences and compare existing diagnostic tools with the identified components. The empirical tool was a questionnaire survey among three groups of experts: university teachers, experienced teachers of children's public associations and association leaders. The study resulted in the identification of four key components of readiness for teachers of children's public associations (motivational, cognitive, activity and reflexive), the formation of a list of the most important competences and the compilation of a psychological and pedagogical portrait of an ideal specialist for children's public associations. Communicative skills, responsibility, creativity, love for children and empathy turned out to be the most demanded. Theoretical significance lies in the deepening of ideas about the nature of professionalism of teachers in children's public associations, the development of a comprehensive structure of their competences and the creation of a tool for diagnosing the degree of their formation. The practical value of the study is expressed in the possibility of implementing the developed diagnostic materials in the practice of training and certification of teachers for children's public associations, which will ensure the purposeful development of their competences and improve the quality of educational and developmental work in children's public associations. The work is aimed at improving the system of teachers' training to meet the needs of the developing Russian children's movement, which corresponds to the strategies of state policy in the field of upbringing and education of the younger generation.