Professional deficits among mathematics teachers and their causes

Statement of the problem. The reform of Russian education, which is in demand by the rapid technical development of all branches of production, is associated with the search for opportunities for appropriate changes in its content and methodological aspects. The general education school requires more and more from a teacher, thus creating a certain tension in terms of the growth of professional deficits among teachers. The purpose of the article is to determine the main approaches to identifying professional deficiencies among mathematics teachers, their structure and causes. Methodology (materials and methods). The research methodology consisted of a competence-based approach as the basis for structuring the professional competencies of a mathematics teacher; a systematic approach as a basis for diagnosing professional deficiencies of a mathematics teacher; Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education in the direction of training “Pedagogical education”, professional standard “Teacher (pedagogical activities in the field of preschool, primary general, basic general, secondary general education)”; module “Discipline training. Mathematics”, the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard for the mathematical training of secondary school students. Research results. The composition of professional deficits among mathematics teachers was revealed and substantiated: discipline-wise, methodological and general pedagogical competencies. The main causes for the emergence of professional deficits among mathematics teachers are formulated: shortcomings of professional training at the university; inconsistency of terms in the requirements for professional competence in the Federal State Educational Standards and the Professional Teacher Standard; overestimated requirements of the employer in terms of the workload; insufficient dissemination of experience obtained from individual advanced training of a mathematics teacher. Conclusion. The approach proposed in the article to structuring the professional deficits among mathematics teachers and describing the complex of causes for their occurrence can be extended to the study of professional teacher deficits in other subject areas.