Self-administration form of professional teachers development within departments of management of Polish higher educational institutions

Abstract

Significant changes concerning new technologies and its use in all spheres of life characterize recent decades of the world society development. A modern citizen of Europe and the world cannot imagine his/her functioning in a society without digital technologies having become an integral part of communication, information and experience exchange and new knowledge acquisition.Nowadays the professional teachers’ development is a topical problem within management departments of higher educational institutions in the Republic of Poland, since the requirements to it are reflected in the legal framework and documents of higher educational institutions. E-learning is becoming a very popular form of information gain and teachers competencies development considering large amount of responsibilities, performed by a teacher and taking into account the rapid development of information and communication technologies.It should be noted that 57,1% of the interviewed teachers indicated that they use e-learning in scientific and didactic, research and organizational activities and 42,9% of teachers use e-learning as students receiving new information, new knowledge and improving professional competence. The same key figures were obtained asking questions about the use of information and communication technologies by teachers during classes: 57,1% of teachers answered that they used it if necessary, 42,9% of teachers reported the answer "yes", no one chose the answer "no".Therefore, self-administration plays an important role in the process of professional development of the teachers’ competence within management departments of polish higher educational institutions. Lifelong learning takes an important place in self-administration: courses, training, seminars, postgraduate education, self-education, blogging, websites, portfolio. The analysis of questionnaires of teachers and official sites of state polish higher educational institutions leads to the conclusion that at the present stage the teachers give a preference to digital technologies and e-learning in the process of raising their professional level. This regards to the fact that this form of education saves time, money, suggests various forms and ways of competences development, allows studying on the job. Both lecturers and students of higher education institutions of the Republic of Poland note that self-management will be considered in the form of e-learning in the future as professional development