Specialty course of teachers’ empathetic culture formation

The article provides detailed description of the specialty course of formation of teachers’ empathetic culture as part of advanced training and retraining of educators. The essence and structure of empathetic culture of teachers are characterized in the article, which includes three main components: cognitive, emotional and personal. Based on the Federal Law “About Education in the Russian Federation”, the state educational standards in the sphere of "Teacher education" the relevance of the problem of formation of empathy culture teachers is revealed. The article also describes the importance and role of empathetic culture in the professional activity of teacher, including a successful pedagogical interaction of teacher with the trainees, presupposes the existence of such qualities and abilities as the adequacy of self-esteem, tolerance, observant, intelligent teacher activity, willingness to understand others emotional state and empathy. In the present article also in detail the specialty course’s sections are described.