PROFESSIONAL AN D PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF A TEACHER BY MEANS OF FURTHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

. New requirements to the university teacher at the time of social and technological changes taking place in the society dictate the need for continuous professional and personal improvement. According to the legislation, a university teacher is to take a professional development course every three years. The aim of the research is to identify the most significant, from educators’ perspective, programs that contribute to their professional and personal development. For this purpose, the authors analyze scientific and pedagogical publications on the research topic and conducted a survey of 78 respondents from various universities in Russia. For the first time, priority formats and forms, as well as the areas of training within the framework of additional professional education, are identified. This determines the scientific novelty of the study. The analysis of the results demonstrates that the most preferred programs are of professional, psychological, pedagogical and digital orientation. The majority of educators demonstrated a desire to master them in an online or hybrid format, studying once a week during a month or a semester. The research results can serve as a reference point for university departments that provide professional development for faculty.