Scientific journal
Научное обозрение. Педагогические науки
ISSN 2500-3402
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COGNITIVE-PSYCHOLOGICAL BASES OF THE SCHOOL HEADMASTER PROFESSIONAL

Milyanchikova O.V. 1
1 Federal State Budget Educational Establishment of Higher Professional Education «Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University named after N.A. Dobrolubov». Nizhny Novgorod
In modern conditions there is a high need in such a headmaster – manager who is capable of efficient restructuring of their activity according to the dynamically changing requirements to the school education. It takes from the headmaster a capacity of continuous professional development. The aim of the article is the presentation of the author’s point of view of the cognitive – psychological bases of the school headmaster professional development relying on the summary of the main concepts of the problem and the analysis of the practical management activity of the school headmasters. Professional development is a targeted process of the qualitative modification of the personality and the leader’s activity. Professional development as a social – psychological phenomenon is expressed in the unity of the personal self-actualization and a capacity of the management activity comprehension and the prospects of its improvement. Selfactualization in the professional activity performs the dominant function, determines the ways of the leader’s potential opportunities realization, it is the main basis and the major psychological condition of the professional development. The self-realization of the school leader is the aspiration for the possibly full realization of the personal potential in the professional activity. Cognitive resources of the school headmaster professional development provide deep cognition of the professional management activity, the acquisition of the new cognitive and professional experience in the sphere of pedagogical management. The position of the personal development enables the school headmaster to achieve the level of creative management activity.