FEATURES OF INTERACTION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND PRESCHOOL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS� LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL

Abstract

Compliance of the professional training of graduates of pedagogical universities with the requirements of professional standards and the needs of preschool education institutions is ensured by the effectiveness of the interaction of these institutions. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the interaction between universities and preschool education institutions in the development of the leadership potential of pedagogical workers by dividing these characteristics into general and specific ones and conducting their analysis. The research methods used are: analysis of the regulatory framework and scientific sources on the research problem, comparison, generalization, systematization of theoretical and empirical data; terminological and bibliographic analysis. The result of the research was the determination of the essence of the leadership potential of educators of preschool education institutions, the identification of its components, the determination of general and specific features of the interaction between institutions of higher and preschool education in the development of leadership potential for future educators of preschool education institutions. Based on the results of the research, it was concluded that the leadership potential of a preschool teacher is his/her natural and socially determined resource capabilities to take the initiative in pedagogical interaction, turning its participants into supporters and inspiring them to follow it. The main components of the leadership potential of a preschool educator are: personal, professional, managerial and communicative potentials, since they ensure the fullness of his/her professional self-realization as a person-leader, professional-leader, organizer-leader and communicative leader. The features of the interaction between preschool education institutions as employers and institutions of higher education as executors of the state order for the training of personnel for the preschool education system consist of its market regulation, organization on the basis of social partnership, orientation to European values ??and best educational practices, burdened by martial law conditions, forced migration and demographic decline.