PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF POLISH TEACHERS IN THE LIGHT OF THE EDUCATIONAL REFORM
The article deals with the problem of study of the stages of professional development of teachers in the Republic of Poland. The author analyzes the changes in raising the level of teachers’ skills which took place in Poland after the educational reform in 1999. The author comes to the conclusion that in the process of the educational reform in Poland there appeared four stages of professional qualification of teachers. They are probationary teachers, contract teachers, appointed teachers, certified teachers. The article also presents statistics on the attitude of Polish teachers to the reform.