Factors of professional growth of preschool education teacher in education organization

The task of the article is the description of the mechanisms of the professional growth of preschool education teacher and ways of providing it in educational organizations. The author formulated the leading methodological principles of the problem under study. Based on the analysis of various approaches, the author revealed the features of the professional growth of the teacher. The historical and pedagogical analysis of the changes in the approaches to the training of preschool education teacher in higher educational institutions in the ХХ-XХI centuries is made, on the basis of which a conclusion is made about the necessity and urgency of studying the problem of the professional growth of preschool education teacher in educational organizations. The description of the phenomenon “professional growth of preschool education teacher” is given and the author's concept is formulated. The criteria and indicators of the professional growth of preschool education teacher are analyzed. The attempt to define an integrative criterion for the professional growth of preschool education teacher is made, which is the personal-professional position of the educator. The analysis of the factors positively influencing the professional growth of preschool education teacher, as well as the factors that negatively affect this process, is carried out.