Expansion of Professional Competence of Modern Teacher in Conditions of Domestic Professional Education Updating

Abstract

The studying of a process of teachers’ professional competence expansion in the conditions of updating of domestic professional education was based on the checking up a hypothesis of interrelation between teachers’ competences and their professional competence. Data of college teachers’ poll of the Tatarstan Republic and the Republic of Mordovia in the conditions of educational standards of the fourth generation’ introduction and professional standards were investigated. The technique of studying the teachers’ opinion on expansion of teachers’ professional competence is theoretically proved and developed. Dynamics of teaching opinion is investigated by means of the adapted didactic means, which allow one to describe quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the happening processes. The research has rather fully allowed revealing the observed unevenness of formation of innovative professional competences of the interviewed teachers. Although a self-assessment formation of the respondents of the offered competences is above an average (on a 10-mark scale), the quantitative indices define the leading role of cognitive competences. Results of the conducted research are useful for experts in the field of education and are of interest for the general public in the conditions of an innovirovaniye of domestic professional education.