Abstract
In the context of socio-pedagogical transformations of higher education organizations, the modernization of the system of teachers’ professional development becomes an integral component of the reforms. Today university teachers have to be ready for continuous development and advanced training throughout their lives. Thus, the study of the problem of university teachers’ professional development in Russia and abroad is very relevant and timely as a response to the modern requirements of civil society for the personality of the teacher. The need for professional development among university teachers is closely related to his (her) desire for more successful indicators in teaching activities. To do this, it is necessary to fulfill several pedagogical conditions, including the teacher's own awareness of the need for professional development; the interest of the university administration and the availability of resources to organize an effective professional development system, etc. The purpose of the article is to show some successful practices of the teachers’ professional development in Russian, Chinese and European universities which the author observed while visiting those universities within the realization the project “Enhancing teaching practice in the universities of Russia and China”. The article presents the possibilities of benchmarking in higher education, in particular, the use of the benchmarking technology as a method of studying the effective practices of organizing the teachers’ professional development in a modern university.
Highlights
The processes of globalization and international educational integration, the substantive characteristics of which include the intensification of international cooperation among universities, their effective interaction and interdependence, the virtualization of many areas of university activities and new types of interaction of regional and global practices, actualize the need of universities to maintain their competitive position in the educational services market through the use of new tools to ensure the quality of higher education, the availability of multiple formats for obtaining competences and introduction of dynamic interdisciplinary educational programs in accordance with the requirements of the global labor market [1, 2, 3]
"New" professional roles require the reforming of the system of teachers’ professional development, which should meet modern global and regional challenges, the state and public initiatives set before pedagogical education by the Russian National Project "Education" and all documents adopted in its development, and should be based on fundamentally new substantive and technological approaches
We will present some of the results of the Russian-Chinese-European project "Benchmarking of successful models of university teachers’ professional development" which started at IPPSP in 2019 within the ENTEP project. This project is aimed at identifying successful practices of professional development of university teachers in order to find the best experience and develop recommendations for its use in Russian universities
Summary
The processes of globalization and international educational integration, the substantive characteristics of which include the intensification of international cooperation among universities, their effective interaction and interdependence, the virtualization of many areas of university activities and new types of interaction of regional and global practices, actualize the need of universities to maintain their competitive position in the educational services market through the use of new tools to ensure the quality of higher education, the availability of multiple formats for obtaining competences and introduction of dynamic interdisciplinary educational programs in accordance with the requirements of the global labor market [1, 2, 3] Implementation of the European experience of organizing a system of teachers’ professional development can serve as a resource and guideline for increasing the effectiveness of reforming the domestic system, successfully transforming the best foreign practices and innovative useful information
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