The educator in extended education by virtue of the characteristics of his profession; forms the tastes, attitudes, beliefs and ideals of students. The formation of communicative competence is a key component of the professional look of the modern teacher of continuing education. The communicative competence of an additional education teacher is: 1) the ability to make a socio-psychological forecast of a communicative situation in which a communicative interaction is to be; 2) the ability to program the communication process, relying on the originality of the communicative situation, thirdly, the ability to manage communication processes in a communicative situation. Based on the foregoing, the purpose of the study is the theoretical justification and experimental verification of the content, a complex of forms and methods that ensure the effective formation of communicative competence in future teachers of further education. Research methods: diagnostic testing using the methods of “Communicative and organizational inclinations”, the questionnaire “Measuring communicative and social competence”, “Assessing the level of conflict of personality”, observation, questionnaire, pedagogical experiment; - data processing methods: qualitative and quantitative analysis, paired t-student test, G-test signs, Wilcoxon t-test. The experimental base was the Institute of Psychology and Education of the Kazan Federal University. At the formative stage of the study, we implemented a program to form the communicative competence of future additional education teachers. The use of Student's t-test showed that after the experiment, there are significant differences in all the studied qualities.

communicative competence, teacher in extended education, professional competence, professional skills, modern day pedagogue