Professional development and self-fulfillment of the teacher in the current environment

The article examines core trends in the development of modern society and education. The aim of national educational project recently created in Russia is to enhance its entire system of education. In this regard, the objectives of the project have been identified which include, among others, the training of current teaching staff, their retraining and advanced training programs. Since the changes entail teachers and their professional development, we have highlighted a number of relevant problems. We find the solution to these problems in studying the process of the teacher's professional self-fulfilment. In this paper, professional self-fulfilment of the teacher is understood as an integral dynamic characteristic, reflecting the teacher's personal qualities in pedagogical activity. The idea of personal self-fulfilment is not limited to one idea of constant self-development and striving for a certain ideal, but invites a person to understand themselves, their ambitions, uniqueness and inner potential that can be realized either in professional or any other course of development. The article pays special attention to the formation of the teacher’s “competences of the future” as one of the objectives and conditions for improving professional development and professional self-fulfilment of the teacher. On the basis of individual and motivational and performance-oriented approaches we have proposed the structure of the teacher's activities aimed at professional development and self-fulfilment.