FORMS AND METHODS OF FORMING LEADERSHIP SKILLS OF LEARNERS OF GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION

Modern changes of the country and society have created a need for a new generation of leaders who are able to act effectively in crisis situations and take responsibility not only for their own future, but also for the future of the state. The leading role in the formation of leadership skills belongs to institutions of general secondary education. This fact requires a change in approaches, also the implementation of new teaching forms and methods into the educational process.Leadership skills are an integrative quality that unites personal, cognitive, social and civic groups of skills. They are consist of knowledge, which is acquired in the learning process and skills formed in individual and group activities and aimed at the realization of a leadership role by learners.The formation of leadership skills, means qualitative and quantitative changes in the structure of the individual, which are manifested in the ability to perform the functions of a leader, to carry out socially significant public activities.According to the survey of 130 teachers of the Educational Complex № 157 Kyiv, the most effective organizational forms were identified (student self-government, protection of social projects, circles, volunteer projects, lessons, charity events, flash mobs, competitions, round tables, debates, trainings, summit of high school leaders, excursions, optional classes, briefings) and methods (creative tasks, problem tasks, stimulation, educational discussion, individual influence, games, peer-to-peer, open microphone, brainstorming, case studies) of forming learnersʼ leadership skills.The article describes the essence of the specified forms and methods and gives examples of their implementation in the educational process. Keywords: leadership skills; personal skills; social skills; cognitive skills; civic skills; organizational forms of formation of leadership skills; methods of formation of leadership skills.