Role of Professional Work of a Higher Education Teacher in the Development of Students’ Creativity

Abstract

This article presents the results of studying the role of the professional work of a higher education teacher in the development of students’ creativity. The relevance of this problem is justified by the creative activities of a teacher, its main types, and the organization of the didactic process using organizational forms and methods of education facilitating the development of an integral creative individuality. The authors analyzed the types and the content of professional educational problems and studied the fulfillment conditions for students’ creativity, as well as the characteristics, logic, and levels of pedagogic thinking and the criteria of pedagogic creativity. The theoretical methods of the research include the analysis of the literature dedicated to creative development and empirical methods aimed at the analysis and self-analysis of students’ creativity development. The results of the research can be applied by young teachers in practice to improve the methods of teaching engineering subjects.