TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE TO HEALTH AS A FACTOR OF EFFECTIVENESS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THEIRHEALTH-BUILDING FUNCTION

The attitude of teachers to health is considered from the perspective of their professional activity from the standpoint of cultural and system-functional approach. It is associated with the idea of humanization of the educational process. The phenomenon “Attitude to health “ is shown as an integral concept, which arose at the intersection of health psychology, philosophy and pedagogy of health. The data from several studies in the field of health culture of teachers (Russian and foreign), including the studies conducted by the author, are presented, which suggests a low level of health culture in the Russian educators (in terms of personal position). It is associated with destructive or indifferent attitude of the teachers towards their health and affects the quality of the implementation of their health-creating function. The health-creating function is considered as a unity of components: 1) the creation of a safe and healthy learning environment, 2) the inclusion into the content of education some issues related to the formation of students’ skills of a healthy lifestyle, oriented on health values and motivation for a creative behavior, and 3) self-development of the teacher in the field of health (professional and personal). In general, the article considers the preservation and strengthening of health through pedagogical means as giving a humanistic attitude to the educational environment and learning process, denial of violent training methods relying on the internal positive motivation towards training activities, development of personal and physical capacities of the child

attitude to health, internal picture of health, teacher’s professional activity, health-creating function, the quality of implementation of professional functions