Distance learning potential of the teacher's additional vocational education system

Abstract

Introduction. In the modern socio-cultural and valeological situation, the problem of increasing the professional competence of a teacher in the system of additional professional education by means of distance learning becomes urgent. The purpose of the study is to develop a theory of distance learning and to substantiate the potential of the contextual situation in the system of additional professional education of a teacher.Purpose setting. Research objectives: to substantiate the methodological basis of the theory of distance learning by means of a contextual situation; to clarify the concept of «distance learning by means of a contextual situation»; to organize experimental work on the implementation of a distance learning model by means of a contextual situation in the additional professional education of a teacher.Methodology and methods of the study: a) theoretical: analysis and systematization of specialized research on the subject; b) empirical: quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data of rapid testing and interviews conducted among students of the Institute of Continuing Education of the Kursk State University, Institutes of Educational Development of Kursk and Orel regions; c) diagnostic: experiment, expert evaluation method, methods of statistical data processing.Results. The development of the theory of distance learning by means of the contextual situation in the system of additional professional education of a teacher is focused on maintaining a balance between the development of individual educational routes of students, which will positively affect the personification of the teacher»s education in post-university improvement, and further successful professional self-realization and the growth of professional and pedagogical competence with the synergetic effect of competence and contextual methodological approaches.Conclusion. Based on the results obtained, we generalize the potential of distance learning by means of using the contextual situation in the system of additional professional education of a teacher. The results of the study can be used by university teachers, graduate students, undergraduates to identify promising and effective pedagogical technologies at different levels of professional education of teachers.