This paper considers the problem of formation of constructive competence of the musical director of preschool educational organization. A special attention has been paid to the functional component of the designated competence, because it is one of the important conditions for gaining experience in the design of educational activities, the creation of didactic and methodological materials, new forms, methods, programs and technologies of educational activities based on knowledge, skills and practical activities.
The following research methods have been defined: a) theoretical: analysis of psychological, pedagogical and methodical literature; analysis and generalization of the theory and practice of the system of advanced training for musical directors of pre-school educational organizations; b) empirical: study and analysis of pedagogical experience on the problem of formation of constructive competence of musical directors of pre-school educational organizations; observation, questionnaires, pedagogical experiment; c) methods of mathematical and statistical processing: performance of the procedure of mathematical and statistical processing of results, experimental work, comparison, generalization.
This paper highlights the results of experimental work, confirming the hypothesis put forward and proving the academic novelty of the study, which is to clarify the concept of constructive competence of the musical director of a pre-school educational organization, the development and implementation of technology for the formation of constructive competence, the definition and justification of criteria, indicators and means of pedagogical diagnosis to determine the level of constructive competence.