Educational and information environment of postgraduate education institutions as a resource for designing individual educational training of teachers

Abstract

The new Ukrainian school needs the teachers able to work on their continuous development and decide on their personal paths with regard to their interests, needs, motivation, opportunities, and experience. The educational environment of postgraduate education should fully allow for the choice of types, forms and pace of education as well as variability of programs. In the context of the national educational space, a number of professional development projects has been proposed to teachers in accordance with the declared change. Despite the diversity of their content and forms, postgraduate educational institutions need their own educational and information environment that would play a leading role in the professional development of teachers and enable them to continuously follow their individual educational trajectories. The article analyzes modern approaches to understanding the essence of educational and information environment of postgraduate pedagogical education institutions. Some results of sociological research on teachers’ readiness to design their own professional development are presented. The practice of individualizing advanced training and professional development of teachers through face-to-face and distance learning using the authors’ platform DLET (Distance Learning Environments for Teachers) at Volyn Institute for Postgraduate Pedagogical Education is described. The platform is based on the principles of accessibility, understandability, personal orientation, motivation and interests; and enables organization of guided independent work of participants under regional educational projects. The articles concludes by stressing the importance to update educational and information resources of postgraduate pedagogical education institutions and to use benefits of the information space objects of the industry and Internet platforms.