REFLECTION AS AN EFFECTIVENESS FACTOR OF TEACHER'S PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

The article discusses the main approaches to understanding reflection in psychology, the professional activity features of the preschool educational institutions' teachers, the possibility of building a model for assessing the professional activity effectiveness. In terms of the approaches considered, the effectiveness of the professional activity of the preschool educational institutions' teacher should be considered as a complex indicator. It is a unity of the procedural and resultative component of his professional activity. which is due to a number of professionally significant personality traits. Reflection participating in the formation and functioning of the professional activity system components, as well as reflexivity as its procedural manifestation, can be considered as such a factor. The research carried out gave complex, but interesting results and made it possible to assess the degree of influence of reflection on the effectiveness of the teachers' professional activity. During this goal implementation, it was possible to obtain information about the features of reflexivity and reflection manifestation in the activities of preschool educational institutions' teachers, as well as the representation of competencies which are significant for the effective professional activities implementation in the sample researched, to test the methodology as a developing criteria aimed at assessing the effectiveness of professional activities of preschool educational institutions' teachers. The study makes it possible to pay attention to more vulnerable aspects of the employees' professional activities and take appropriate measures to optimize them. (C) 2021 Published by European Publisher.