DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS ` PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN THEORETICAL TRAINING OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE SYSTEM OF ADULT EDUCATION

Abstract

The article highlights the problems of developing the professional competence of teachers of vocational education and training. After all, the teachers` professional competence is the main determinant in the training of a competitively capable, socially mature, and hardworking employee, a citizen of Ukraine. It is emphasized that the development of teachers` professional competence in vocational education institutions will be effective if the system of continuous postgraduate education is functioning. The system of continuing postgraduate education is a complex system that unites, respectively, independent subsystems that retain their goals and objectives, specific features. Each of these subsystems is aimed at achieving a common goal - the development of teachers` professional competence.