The article deals with the issues of professional development of a foreign language teacher and identifies its main features. It is stated that modern world demands new approaches to the organization and improvement of the teaching process of learning a foreign language. It is determined that improving the quality of teaching depends on many factors. It is stated that the constant professional development of teachers is characterized by a variety of forms, methods, approaches. It is noted that new technologies created conditions for fundamental changes in teaching methods, changed the conditions of professional activity of a teacher, transformed his/her role and functions, and also required mastering a range of new skills. The qualification characteristic of a teacher is formulated as an integral part of his/her professional culture, which is aimed at improvement and self-development. It is emphasized on the importance and necessity of increasing the effectiveness of acquiring knowledge and practical skills in the institutes of advanced training and improvement. Keywords: teacher, professional development, foreign language, students, innovative pedagogical technologies

The article analyzes the scientific literature, summarizes and systematizes pedagogically experience of the problem, reveals the essence and content of professional competence of future police officers, presents a functional and role-based view of communicative activities from the position of tutor, identifies the possibility of including a tutor tool in the formation of future communicative competence police officers. It is emphasized that tutor action is the most important emergent component of the holistic process of training future police officers, where the formation of communicative competence is an important task. Keywords: the communicative competence of the future police officers, a tutor, tutoring, a tutor, the higher education, the higher educational institution, the educational process.

He paper demonstrates that the most spread among the diseases of the spine, acquired as a result of doing sport, is intervertebral osteochondrosis; the distribution of degenerative changes in the spine according to the type of sport was studied. It was found out that the leading position is occupied by high-skilled athletes – masters of sports, candidates for masters, first-grade sportspeople (75% of cases). Keywords: spine, osteochondrosis, sport, prevention, rehabilitation.

The article highlights the opportunities of using coaching technologies as conditions for students’ professionalself-development. The author determines the factors of future socionomic sphere specialists’ readiness to use coaching technologies in terms of the choice of content and procedural educational alternatives, explores the opportunities of using coaching technologies when teaching socionomic sphere specialists’ at university. Keywords: coaching technologies, coach, methods of professional activity’s self-regulation, coaching techniques.

The ways of sorting out differences existing in professional artistic education due to the reconstruction of its content on the basis of the introduction of the latest artistic paradigm of education of the XXI century are considered in the article. The expediency of creating specific environment: the media space of artistic and creative activity, where the future teacher-musician acquires digital competence as a factor for the effective implementation of the latest artistic paradigm in modern higher education institutions, mastering the professionally directed digital competences, in the process of the development of innovative creative potential by means of digital art, is outlined. Keywords: modern paradigm of education, artistic educational space, digital technologies, innovative and creative potential, digital art, digital competence.

In the article, the author dwells on the problem of future vocalist's emotional expressiveness formation as one of the main factors of his professional and vocal training. Based on the theoretical analysis of psychological, pedagogical, art and vocal pedagogical literature we highlighted scientific approaches and principles determining the formation of the emotional expressiveness, its quality, and effectiveness. Scientific approaches and principles will become the background for the methodological model of future vocalist's emotional expressiveness formation at solo singing classes. Keywords: scientific principles; scientific approaches; emotional expressiveness; professional training; future vocalist.

The article substantiates necessity of including linguistic and country study content while developing communicative competence of students; demonstrates a scheme of applying the communicative approach to developing linguocultural competence of students as a system of country-through-language knowledge, skills and motives that enable effective communication in the process of cross-cultural intercourse. The model of developing such competence is based on the principles of authenticity of linguocultural material, philological way of cognition, polychannel perception of information; and encompasses motivating (psychological), orientating (factual) and communicative (subject-oriented, pseudo-communucative, creative) stages. Keywords: communicative competence, cross-cultural communication, country-though-language studies, linguocultural competence, future foreign language teachers, philological training.

On the most important tasks of modern educational degree is the skills preservation and strengthening of health of participants of the educational process. In this context, an important indicator of future doctors, including specialists in physical education, to favor of preserving the culture of the sport. Article observes the main questions of reform of physical education in a summer camp. Keywords: sport, health, education, summer camp, reforms.

The task of the competence-based approach in higher vocational education is the training of qualified specialists that are competitive in the labour market. The review of the requirements of numerous firms to the competence of employees showed that for a particular business one needs professionals who have certain "business"-competencies that bring profit to the company: no profit – specialist has no competencies. At the same time, more attention is paid to universal competencies when hiring. As a rule, professional competence is confirmed by the diploma of the university. In work methodical features of various approaches to modelling "business"-competencies at employment of graduates of high schools are considered. Keywords: professional concepts, universal competencies, "business"-competencies, indicators (concepts), modelling "business"-competencies.

The article deals with the urgent issue of training high school students for external independent testing, the necessary condition for which is formation of their subject-matter competency, in particular, the mathematical one. The essence of competency-based approach, concepts “competence”, “competency” are revealed. The author singles out the effective forms, methods, technologies of organizing high school students’ educational activity in mathematics lessons aimed at quality preparation for external independent testing. Keywords: competency-based approach, competency, competence, subject-matter competency, external independent testing.