THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEM ADVANCED TRAINING SYSTEM OF TEACHERS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

Changes in the education system, due to the specifics of the socioeconomic development of modern society, lead to the emergence of new tools to improve the quality of education and upbringing. The development and implementation of the professional standard of the teacher should have allowed to determine the vectors of development of professional competencies of teachers. In these circumstances, there was a need to make adjustments to the field of additional professional education, as the industry responsible for postgraduate education of specialists. The purpose of the our research was to study the prospects for the development of the professional development system in the context of modernization processes. In December 2019, a large-scale study of the attitude of different categories of specialists from the education system to the process of implementing the professional standard, as well as related concepts of the national system of teacher growth and the national project “Education” was conducted in the Orel region. The survey was attended by teachers and heads of General education organizations, specialists of municipal Executive authorities that manage education, employees of institutions of additional professional education. The results of the study showed a heterogeneous level of awareness about the implementation of the studied tools for improving the quality of education. Thus, specialists of the system of additional professional education (APE) are more critical of the introduction of innovations, including distance learning in the field of professional development. At the same time, it is preferable for them to take more frequent courses by teachers. Against this background, heads of small schools and most teachers are ready to improve their professional skills in absentia, as well as in the process of informal communication with colleagues, participation in educational events, and independently during working hours. The identified trends indicate the need to work on improving the level of formal professional development, attracting new technologies to it, as well as the responsibility of specialists of the specified system for forming a positive image of organizations of APE. The introduction of a professional standard should make it easier for specialists to search for new forms of work with teachers.

Keywords: additional professional education, professional development, professional standard of a teacher