Diversification Of Additional Professional Programs For Preschool Educators

Abstract

The 21st century marks a new era – the era of education, the peculiarity of which lies in the high importance attached to the growing role of adult education. Rapid dynamic changes in the system of preschool education require a preschool educator to have high professional mobility, the ability for self-development and lifelong education, so the process of personal and professional development of teachers in the system of additional professional education (hereinafter referred to as APE) is of great importance. Studies conducted in Russia and abroad show that diversification in modern conditions is multi-level education, multi-stage vocational training, diversity, expansion, variability and flexibility of educational services and educational programs, the introduction of new areas of study, new courses, as well as going beyond the limits of traditional learning models, which is dictated by the need for modernization of the system of preschool education. The process of diversification will have positive dynamics only if conditions are created for the effective inclusion of vocational education in the processes of increasing the professional competence of teachers of preschool educational organizations (hereinafter referred to as PEO).The experience of diversification of additional professional programs (hereinafter referred to as APP) for preschool teachers was studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of postgraduate pedagogical education (hereinafter referred to as SPb APPE).The most significant results of the diversification of the APP for preschool teachers are the formation of key professional competencies, the need for self-education and self-development of preschool teachers.