Interaction of the Ministry of Education and Science and public associations in the reorganization of the system of professional development of pedagogical staff

Abstract

The problem of reforming the system of professional development of pedagogical workers has been considered in the article. This system was developed in the secondary education of Ukraine during the last three decades. Preparatory work towards the reform of this system has been carried out by the public organization EdCamp Ukraine, which was created and operates on the principles of the global movement EdCamp. It emerged in the USA as an alternative to the state way of teacher training and professional development. Relying on the data of the previous Ukrainian and international researches, the EdCamp Ukraine team confirmed the trends concerning the peculiarities of teachers' professional development and the specifics of feedback on teaching. The methodological strategy (online surveys and unrepresentative samples) has been developed and sociological research objectives have been formulated, which confirmed the perception of changes in the reform of the current system of professional development by the educational community. In 2018 EdCamp Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine conducted an online survey of 8,427 educators as part of a joint project. The aim of the sociological study «Teach and learn: how and where Ukrainian teachers can grow» was to study the range of ideas of teachers and other stakeholders about reforming the current system, training system, expected changes and specific steps. The legal documents, governing the work of public authorities in the process of public administration together with state, municipal educational institutions, public organizations with the involvement of international experience in a pilot project for certification of teachers – «Agents of Changes», have been analyzed in the article. It has been emphasized that in present-day realities to improve the current system of teachers training process' management it is necessary to apply current regulations and to see the experience of their implementation in the certification process with the involvement of all stakeholders. The purpose of certification, the main principles on which the project is based, the stages of their implementation, the course of events, the quantitative indicators of participants, changes in the process of the experiment and the results of certification of 2019 and 2020 have been revealed in the article.