Features of the Humanities Subjects Teachers' Training for Professional Guidance Work at Institutions of General Secondary Education

Abstract

The problem of humanities teachers’ adaptation to career guidance work with students in general secondary education institutions is currently one of the most complex interdisciplinary problems, which covers various spheres of human activity: psychological-pedagogical, socio-economic and medical-biological. The purpose of the article is to characterize the peculiarities of the humanities subjects teachers' training for professional guidance work in institutions of general secondary education. During the research, the author used general scientific and pedagogical research methods, namely theoretical ones, which include: analysis (comparative, systemic, inductive, deductive); synthesis (general scientific, interdisciplinary); classification, systematization, generalization. Results. The study analyzed the main provisions of the problem of professional adaptation of young teachers of humanitarian subjects to career guidance work; the periods of formation of readiness for its implementation are determined: pre-career guidance and the period of direct career guidance; three stages (initial-adaptive as "entry" into career guidance work, medium adaptation to conducting career guidance with students and effective career guidance work) of the period of direct career guidance are distinguished. Instructive meetings of a young specialist with the head of the educational institution, deputies and methodologists regarding the main responsibilities, and the style of career guidance work of this educational institution to provide methodical assistance in the process of preparing for classes with a career guidance goal is characterized. The essence of system-organized mentoring is revealed, which ensures the close cooperation of an experienced teacher with a novice teacher for the transfer of pedagogical and career guidance experience aimed at the successful self-improvement of a young teacher, his self-realization, self-education, self-organization and self-correction. The main functions of a mentor are described (professional and educational, educational, the influence of the authority of the teacher, and self-education), which contribute to the proper conduct of career guidance work by a novice teacher in an educational institution. Conclusions. In the study, the main pedagogical approaches to the consolidation of teacher-mentors were determined. It was concluded that the training teachers of humanitarian subjects for vocational guidance work at general secondary education institutions has certain features that affect the quality of its implementation.