FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING STAFF QUALIFICATION IMPROVING

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of training teaching staff in the USA. It is noted that today in the USA considerable attention is paid not only to the training of teaching staff, but also to the improvement of their qualifications in the postgraduate education system. The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of professional development of teaching staff in the US postgraduate education system. Research methods: study of American scientific literature, analysis, systematization, concretization, generalization of the obtained data.  Improving the qualifications of teaching staff is coordinated by the relevant bodies of the country. Thus, the Ministry of Education is a state body responsible for the implementation of government policy in the country on a wide range of issues in the field of education. Its composition, along with other subdivisions, includes: the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Council of Pedagogical Research, the National Institute of Education, the Department of Education, the Fund for the Improvement of Higher Education, the Bureau of Professional Development of Pedagogical Personnel. The main unit dealing with issues of retraining and professional development of teaching personnel in the USA is the Bureau of Professional Development of Pedagogical Personnel. The Bureau is headed by a chairman appointed by the Minister of Education of the country, usually from among specialists in the field of higher education who have an impeccable reputation and extensive experience of practical work in this field. In addition to the Ministry of Education and the Bureau of Professional Development, which reports to it, there are other federal state and public institutions that deal with problems of professional development, but they are not subordinate to the Ministry of Education. The study of scientific sources makes it possible to formulate the main principles on which the system of improving the qualifications of teachers in the USA is built today and will, according to the leaders of educational policy, be built in the future: continuity; focus on the variety of forms and technologies of professional development and personal development; participation of various categories of teaching staff in determining policy in the field of professional development; unification of all parties interested in the professionalism of teachers; recognizing the priority of education and increasing the prestige of the teaching profession in society; relationship between the system of professional development and the system of pedagogical education; focus on the optimal combination of special subject knowledge with professional and pedagogical knowledge and skills; professionalism, competence; focus on the use of research methods for improving the qualifications of teachers, on the development of their creative potential and initiative.