Ustichew O.G.
ACTIVITIES OF THE MILITARY HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO PREPARE OFFICERS-TEACHERS FOR TEACHING ACTIVITIES ^{[№ 3 ' 2020]}
The activity of the chair of Military University is determined by the relevant requirements established by the University and based on the regulatory provisions of the Ministry of Defense (profile Ministry) and the Ministry of Education and Science. The chair is a part of the system of a Military University, a kind of strategic unit of its development. The relevance of the appeal to the issues of chair activity organization on training teaching officers with the purpose of preparing them for pedagogical activity is connected with increase of requirements to teaching staff qualification, changes in quality criteria of educational process and with growing role of chairs in the strategic development of Military Universities. The research presented in the article is aimed at determining a set of conditions that ensure the readiness of teaching officers for pedagogical activity. Based on the theoretical analysis of scientific literature, the author characterizes the value-semantic context of interaction between the teachers of the chair, assesses the possibilities of web technologies in organizing the information space of the chair, emphasizes the importance of the personality and authority of the head of the chair, who plans, organizes and controls the activities of teachers. The author believes that the space of the chair is a spectrum of various professional and social relations that have significant potential for personal and professional development of teachers. Teaching officers who have the necessary level of military skills and professionally important qualities, including knowledge of the basics of research activities, are the key to the successful functioning of the chair. The author suggests a content-functional model of the chair’s activity that is fundamental for organizing training of teaching officers to improve their pedagogical activities. This training regards the following areas: joint goal-setting, creating conditions, developing and using new training technologies.

Ustichev O.G.
VALUE BASES OF PROFESSIONAL PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITYOF MILITARY UNIVERSITY TEACHERS ^{[№ 1 ' 2020]}
A number of requirements are imposed on the activities of teachers in military schools due to certain restrictions, official relations, which are based on the principles of centralization and unity of command. The purpose of the study is to determine the value foundations and value-semantic components of professional and pedagogical activity of a military university teacher.
A theoretical study made it possible to establish reasons that affect the activities nature of a military university teacher. They are associated with a change in value orientations in society and the army. The rethinking of the traditional values of military service and officers is indicated. For the successful organization of professional and pedagogical activity of military university teachers, understanding of changes in norms, values, discourse and military professional and pedagogical activity is also required. The importance of the teacher’s personality, his unique professional and human qualities, as well as those values that he himself follows and broadcasts to cadets is emphasized. The results of axiological analysis show that the values of professional and pedagogical activity of teachers of a military university are a well-established system of attitudes, informed representations, which ensures the choice of strategies for professional behavior of teachers of a military university, its stability and continuity. This system is holistic in nature and acts as a cognitively functioning system that determines the relationship between the prevailing views on the problems of military education, the requirements of military service and the teacher professional and pedagogical activity.
Under the conditions of irreversible axiological changes, the work of a teacher at a military university is becoming more and more complicated. Values are manifested in the style of teachers professional and pedagogical activity, the nature of the relationship built by teachers. The values of professional pedagogical activity are formed on the basis of ethical standards, moral and ethical guidelines, attitudes that exist in the professional pedagogical community of military university teachers.