The article reveals the degree of professionalism of a modern teacher, which depends on the level of development of his communicative competence, and this basically implies a high level of development of the communicative abilities of an individual. The communicative abilities of a teacher are considered as a multifaceted personal and professional education, which ensures the ability to optimally organize professional communication with other participants in the communicative process, the adequacy of self-perception in communication during interaction and the individual and psychological characteristics of the interlocutors, the speed and ease of learning new, more effective forms of communicative behavior .