CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS’ SOFTSKILLS DURING REFRESHER COURSES FOR TEACHERS

Abstract

The article examines the development of flexible skills of teachers in the system of postgraduate education. To describe the main ideas that form the outline of the requirements for the process and the result of the development of professional competence of modern teachers, the main functions identified in the professional standard “Primary school teacher of general secondary education” have been analyzed for the presence of aspects of the development of flexible skills as a part of a professional competence. The analysis of the standard detected a number of flexible skills that should be formed according to the teacher’s job functions, however, we believe that the “Communication” section is not sufficiently detailed. A 4-block-map of development of teachers’ softskills in refresher courses for teachers was created. Therefore, the prospectuses of classes were developed, which are appropriate to be included in the curriculum for advanced training courses for teachers. They are cross-cutting in nature, that is, they are universal for all categories of students with an emphasis on the development of teachers’ softskills. The content of such classes, which are offered to choose from for inclusion in the curriculum of teachers’ refresher courses was described. The conditions for improving the teachers’ softskills in postgraduate education conditions were formulated: updating the content of the curriculum for advanced training courses, which has to provide end-to-end interships with coursework topics which would contribute to the development of softskills; development of the author’s programs of advanced training courses for the development of flexible skills (softskills) of teachers, enables teachers to purposefully choose the development of a specifically defined path of self-improvement; improving the organization of the educational process aimed at ensuring the flexibility, accessibility, continuity of educational programs and has the goal of creating conditions for the implementation of various trajectories of improving professional competence, simplifying access to educational products using ICT and network resources; expanding the use of advanced technologies in the course of advanced training aimed at communication, interaction, team building, leadership development; transformation of educational space into coworking, which contributes to the active participation of the teacher in the network interaction in the form of joint educational, research and social projects.