VECTORS OF DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF THE MODERN TEACHER IN THE CONDITIONS OF MODERNIZATION OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The modern model of socio-economic development of Ukraine must meet an effective system of vocational and professional higher education, which can quickly adapt to market demands and provide training for skilled workers who are able to be competitive in the existing socio-economic space.. In recent years, a change in the educational paradigm is taking place in the state: from information-cognitive, inherent in industrial society, to personal-activity, based on a competency-based approach to the educational process, characteristic of the post-industrial, information society. Educational practice objectively needs to make a particular student the main figure in the educational process, thus focusing the activities of teachers of vocational education on the personification of the process of professional training. Significant changes in society, social life, the productive sector of the economy and the sphere of state services necessitate the training of a pedagogical worker with a fundamentally new type of thinking. An employee who is ready to carry out innovative pedagogical and scientific-methodical activities, professionally competent, who is able to perform constructive actions in various situations of a professional nature and carry out educational and methodological activities at a high scientific level in accordance with modern educational requirements. The article presents the main approaches to the development of professional competence of a teacher of the system of vocational and professional higher education. One of the leading components of professional development of a teacher is his ability to modern educational and methodological activities, which involves designing classes based on a competency approach, the use of innovative educational technologies, the introduction of integrated learning in the system of vocational education.