PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS: LIFE-LONG LEARNING

Abstract

To improve pedagogical and professional competencies, teachers, especially elementary school teachers, must constantly improve the level of their knowledge, skills and abilities, as it is necessary to increase the level of students' acquisition of new knowledge and achieve a high level of educational success. The aim of the article is to reveal the influence of pedagogical and professional competences, which primary school teachers improve during the life cycle, on the level of academic success of primary school students in Poland and Czech Republic. It was found that teaching and professional competence, the level of which teachers of primary schools improve throughout life significantly affect the level of educational success of primary school students.