Modern roles of the lower primary school teacher (Współczesne role nauczyciela wczesnej edukacji)

The article deals with an analysis of a teacher’s importance in contemporary early primary school education, which is the base of further education. It elaborates on the competencies, personal features and teachers’ roles at 1–3 grades of primary school. The article consists of two parts — theoretical one and research results. The theoretical part describes a tendency connected with teachers’ functioning in a changing modern school′s situation. The research was done among teachers and early primary students. It was carried out in the years 2012/2013 among 100 teachers and 130 parents from a country and a town — in South Eastern Poland.