The use of Information Technologies (IT) in the formation, development and improvement of the competence of higher education teachers

Abstract

The article examines the tendencies defining requirements for the level of IT competence of a modern teacher. The results of the study show that the IT competence of a modern teacher is one of the key indicators of the success of his/her activity and at the same time - the necessary precondition for the further improvement of his/her professional competence that determines the significance of developing the system of modern teacher's advanced training focused in systematic practice of IT. The advanced training models described in the article allow to solve some problems of raising the level of IT competence of the modern teacher, however, they have a number of disadvantages which do not allow to solve fully the problem of the active use of IT by teacher in his/her professional activity. It shows the need to develop a model of advanced training of teachers, based on the idea of integration of the models and personalized demands of the modern teacher.