Aspects of readiness of higher education teachers for continuing professional development

Abstract

The article highlights the necessity to increase attention to the formation of the readiness of teachers of higher education institutions for continuing professional self-improvement. The readiness of teachers for professional self-improvement is considered a multifaceted personal-professional formation, structurally represented by the unity of functionally interconnected components: motivational-value, organizational-activity; emotional and volitional; information-cognitive, reflexive-evaluative. The criteria for diagnosing this phenomenon are differentiated: awareness of the necessity for purposeful continuing professional self-improvement; theoretical training, the level of professionally oriented knowledge, practical and operational training, the formation of practical skills and abilities of professional self-improvement. A set of individual psychological qualities important for continuing professional self-improvement and future professional activity in general; focus on self-analysis, self-assessment of professional improvement are analyzed. The levels of teachers’ readiness for continuing professional self-improvement are determined and characterized: critical, passive, basic, optimal, creative. We also defined several  aspects of analysis and self-analysis of professional activity, training through the organization of personality-oriented interactive activities, updating teachers’ professional experience, ensuring a selective attitude to problems, educational material, focusing on the formation and implementation of the program of personal and professional self-development.