Health culture as a professional competence of a teacher and ways of developing it among students – future teachers

High responsibility for the results and quality of their professional work imposes a great psycho-emotional burden on teachers. Modernization of the education system, active introduction of distance learning aggravate this burden, cause fatigue, professional deformations and, ultimately, negatively affect the mental and physical health of teachers. At the same time, without good health and high performance, it is difficult for a teacher to achieve high-quality results and success in their professional activities. Analyzing the features of the professional health of modern primary school teachers, the author concludes that it has its own characteristics. Students - future teachers in the process of professional training should learn these features, as well as possible ways of protecting and strengthening health. The formed culture of health and health-creative competence of bachelors in the field of training 44.03.01 «Pedagogical education» will allow them to quickly adapt to innovative processes in education, constantly changing learning conditions, cope with stress, excessive “throat” and visual loads. Extensive experience working with students, empirical research, online survey of 84 teachers and 65 students - future teachers allowed the author to identify the main risks and threats to the professional health of teachers, formulate recommendations for the protection of psycho-emotional health and prevention of «school» stress, «professional burnout syndrome».