Conditions for professional development of teachers in the system of higher education
This paper deals with the scientific analysis of organizational and methodological support provided in training of future teachers and educators. This analysis has revealed a number of major trends in innovative training. The author has considered the learning process in modern educational institutions in terms of spiritual and moral upbringing, including development through the values of pedagogical culture, i.e. orienting the future education professionals towards the real social problems and needs. The paper describes the organizational and teaching conditions affecting the professional development of highly qualified educators and the organizational and pedagogical mechanism of their professional development. The study has revealed the organizational and pedagogical conditions with a positive potential for real support of occupational training. The author has also analyzed the optimization of university education, which implies that the optimization is impossible without a systematic monitoring of students and informed choice of the teaching means and methods that promote objective results at least cost. In addition, optimization depends on personal characteristics of a teacher, such as his or her creative thinking, motional responsiveness, in-touch capabilities. Methodical support of students training based on specific set of sources, methods, techniques and teaching conditions is crucial factor in optimizing the learning process. It contributes to the development of general and professional culture and capacity building of future educators. Organizational and pedagogical conditions are aimed at stimulating the teaching and learning activities and are designed to accompany the continuous educational process within a specific educational system. This is conditioned by the need to maintain constant pedagogical effect of all organizational and pedagogical conditions on the professional development of highly qualified educators. A future teacher is able to accumulate the required knowledge and broaden his or her outlook through continuous occupational training, studying of relevant reference sources and practical teaching at school. Another relevant aspect of training future educators is diagnosing various sources of teaching information and finding ways to correct the available alternative sources of information. The position of a teacher in supporting student’s work is an accompanying one, as it involves providing aid in student’s cognitive activity, self-analysis, analysis of the situation, goal setting, selection of optimal means and methods.