PEDAGOGICAL ARTISTRY AS A COMPONENT OF THE TEACHER`S PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE

The scientific researches on the essence of pedagogical artistry are analyzed, which became the basis for formulating the author's own definition of this phenomenon as a complex of professionally significant, interrelated and interdependent qualities of the teacher's personality, which ensures perfect mastery of pedagogical techniques and skills of transformation, expressive, aesthetically attractive transmission of educational material in order to maximize the teacher's individual potential.The structure of the teacher's pedagogical artistry is determined, which includes motivational (the need for self-improvement and self-expression; raising the general level of students' culture through art; improving verbal and non-verbal means of communication; improving emotional culture), internal (knowledge of world and national culture, fluency in professional knowledge; ability to manage one's own psychophysical state, relieve excessive mental and physical stress; ability to reflect and empathize) and external (skill in influencing personality and the team; the ability to express emotions, convey one's own assessment of certain information, facts, embody inner experience in the bodily nature; mastery of pedagogical directing; mastery of verbal means of communication: technique, logic of speech, non-verbal means of communication) components.A methodology for the formation of pedagogical artistry in future teachers has been developed, which is based on training sessions and specially selected exercises based on the principles of theater pedagogy.