Additional professional education of a college teacher as a factor of professional growth

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of additional professional education of teachers, which is considered as the dominant factor in their professional growth and development. The article contains the results of an experimental study, in which the effectiveness of the author's variable technologies for building a system of additional education for teachers in college was tested. The authors substantiate the relevance of the study, determine the criteria and indicators of professional growth of a college teacher, reveal the main conceptual provisions of the organization of advanced training courses in the college and assess the effectiveness of their implementation in a holistic pedagogical process. The results of the pedagogical experiment, in which 65 teachers with different experience of pedagogical activity took part, allowed the authors to conclude that it is necessary and expedient to implement in the college variable programs of additional education for teachers, developed taking into account the peculiarities of professional development initially diagnosed in them and determined on this basis adaptive, activating, stimulating and transforming types of trajectories of their professional growth.