The modern model of socio-economic development of Ukraine must meet an effective system of vocational and professional higher education, which can quickly adapt to market demands and provide training for skilled workers who are able to be competitive in the existing socio-economic space.. In recent years, a change in the educational paradigm is taking place in the state: from information-cognitive, inherent in industrial society, to personal-activity, based on a competency-based approach to the educational process, characteristic of the post-industrial, information society. Educational practice objectively needs to make a particular student the main figure in the educational process, thus focusing the activities of teachers of vocational education on the personification of the process of professional training. Significant changes in society, social life, the productive sector of the economy and the sphere of state services necessitate the training of a pedagogical worker with a fundamentally new type of thinking. An employee who is ready to carry out innovative pedagogical and scientific-methodical activities, professionally competent, who is able to perform constructive actions in various situations of a professional nature and carry out educational and methodological activities at a high scientific level in accordance with modern educational requirements. The article presents the main approaches to the development of professional competence of a teacher of the system of vocational and professional higher education. One of the leading components of professional development of a teacher is his ability to modern educational and methodological activities, which involves designing classes based on a competency approach, the use of innovative educational technologies, the introduction of integrated learning in the system of vocational education.
The article analyzes the factors caused by the threat of spreading the coronavirus infection COVID-19 and introducing the martial law in Ukraine which affect the state of the vocational education. Taking into account the modern challenges and problems based on the analisys of the legislation the main directions of the vocational education development were determined. In particular, improving qualifications and professional development of teachers’ staff, enriching material and technical base of the vocational education institutions and educational programmes as well. Trendwatching of the modern labour market made it possible to single out its main trends: a change in the structure of employment, primarily an increase in the variability of employment; lifelong learning; automation and robotics; age diversity; forming hard skills, soft skills, digital skills; multipotentiality, background, interdisciplinarity. In order to solve the urgent problems and ensure the reorientation of the vocational training of qualified workers and improving its quality, special measures were suggested, including participating in the projects financed from the EU funds; developing educational modules and special courses for promoting lifelong professional development of teachers, improving educational programmes to enable improvement of the material and technical base of the vocational education institutions and professional development of teachers.
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