Features of personal and professional development of primary school teachers in professional activity

The article reveals the psychological and pedagogical features of the professional activity of primary school teachers. The results of the analysis of scientific literature have shown that the specific features that distinguish the activity of the teacher of primary school education from the activity of the subject teacher of secondary or high school is, at first, teaching them a variety of disciplines of mathematical, humanitarian, natural sciences, artistic and aesthetic cycles; secondly, the reference of its role for primary school children and, thirdly, the close interaction of primary school teachers with parents of children. The above psychological and pedagogical features do not exhaust all the characteristics of the professional activity of the teacher of secondary school, they are the essential levers that determine a number of requirements for the profession of teacher and are directly reflected in his professional consciousness, which is the basis of professional formation of personality.