Pedagogical tolerance as a component of communicative competence of comprehensive school teachers

The article discusses communicative competence and pedagogical tolerance. The structure and characteristics of the communicative competence of secondary school teachers is considered. The authors distinguish and describe four types of teachers with a high level of tolerance, as well as present the classification of intolerant teachers capable to adopt both active and passive position in the interpersonal relations. It is revealed that the pedagogical tolerance is one of the main components of the communicative competence of secondary schools teachers.