Professional standards and professional development of pedagogues
The article is devoted to the introduction of the professional standard of a pedagogue. The author comes to the conclusion that the introduction of the professional standard of pedagogue should entail changes in the professional development of teachers. The article analyses the requirements for pedagogue laid down in professional standards and identify those skills which he or she should have. Competences in the light of the requirements of the professional standard, the author presents four spheres of professional activity of pedagogue: legal, psychological, physiological, sociocultural and general. The article describes the modules of the training programs and competences formed at their realisation. On the basis of psycho-physiological and socio-professional characteristics of teachers and competences that should be formed and developed on training courses, various activity-organisational and organisational-cognitive forms of education aimed at the formation of a new qualitative state of teacher professional competency, his or her intellectual culture and the culture of self-development. Active, activity forms and methods of training of teachers were most suited to the requirements of professional standards and helping to meet the educational interests of pedagogues.