Professional competencies of the future teacher-musician: essence, content, structure (conductor and choral aspect)

Abstract

The article updates the problem of training a future teacher-musician. Attention is focused on conducting, as one of the most complex and specific types of professional activity of a future specialist. The peculiarities of the professional competence of the future teacher-musician in the process of conducting and choral training are highlighted. The views of scientists regarding the interpretation of the concept of professional competence are analyzed. In general, professional competence is considered as the readiness and ability of a specialist to make effective decisions for the implementation of professional activities and is a set of key, basic and special competences. Key, basic and special competencies are characterized and their essence is revealed. The formation of professional competences, which depend on the subject field and are necessarily important in the professional activity of a teachermusician, is indicated. Attention is focused on the activity approach as a method of organizing the professional training of a future specialist for successful practical activity. The importance of the connection of conducting with classes in the choir class is emphasized. During the study of choral works, it is proposed to build an educational process according to the technological cycle: "perception – analytical study – reproduction". The views of outstanding personalities of the modern national conducting and choral school on the profession of conductor-choirmaster are analyzed. The components of the structure of conducting and choral training are defined. The content of the communicative component was analyzed. It is indicated that the communicative component is an important integrative quality of the personality in the professional activity of the conductor-choirmaster, which determines the productivity of solving professionally significant tasks in the process of communication with the choir. It is indicated that the communicative component is an important integrative quality of the personality in the professional activity of the conductor-choirmaster, which determines the productivity of solving professionally significant tasks in the process of communication with the choir.

Key words: future teacher-musician, professional competence, conducting and choral training.