Personal and competence training of a teacher to moral and spiritual education of schoolchildren.

Abstract

The problems of the future pedagogues’ training for moral and spiritual education of schoolchildren were analyzed in the article. It was stated that spirituality is the basic motive of an individual’s being and corresponds to his nature. Spiritual aspirations reflect the complex mental reality, the existence of a fundamental experience that “arises from the person’s devotion to spiritual values”. It is said that the increase in the level of the teacher’s spirituality is nowadays a necessary and important precondition for his personality formation.

Key words:

moral and spiritual education of schoolchildren; personal and professional development; identity; spirituality of a teacher.