Literature review of works by Russian and foreign scientists has been performed aiming at reveling essential properties of professional competence of teachers as the competence of the highest level. Course training program has been described, which is comprised of three modules covering urgent issues and technologies of media education, monitoring of quality assessment and efficiency of mastering program, various examples of electronic education products, publications, electronic resources and thesaurus of key notions. The results of the performed studies have been the disclosing of the notion essence of professional metacompetence of teacher, which is expressed in readiness to solve professional tasks under the conditions of mediatization of education system. On the basis of the experimental results, the efficiency of software and methodological support of development of professional metacompetence of teachers has been proved and reflected in diagrams. Therefore, it has been concluded that the development of professional metacompetence of teachers allows to apply interactive forms of education in various online learning environments and provides professional training of teachers of higher quality aiming at independent solution to education problems in the changing educational environment. Recommendations have been given for application of cloud technologies for activation of teacher’s activity in monitoring and estimation at various levels of education.

The purpose of the study is to reveal the features of the influence of empathy on the development of the sensory sphere of the younger school student in music lessons at school. The article focuses on the specifics of the formation of empathy, its connection with musical material. Scientific novelty lies in the substantiation of the purposeful development of the empathic sphere of children in music lessons, in the specification of its factors and criteria. As a result, the stages of development of empathy, its connection with the life and sensory experience of the student, his behavior, personal characteristics, as well as the guiding role of joint creative activity with the teacher, which helps to develop the experience of the student's musical experiences, affects the formation of his feelings, develops the ability to recognize non-verbally expressed emotions by music, is revealed.

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