DEVELOPMENT OF PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS OF SPECIAL SUBJECTS’ TEACHERS WHILE ADVANCED TRAINING

The article highlights the basic theoretical principles of the author's technique of pedagogical skills development of special subjects’ teachers at vocational schools in the process of advanced training. A prerequisite for its development is the fact that the majority of special subjects’ teachers at vocational schools in various fields have professional experience in various industries and the service sector; however, they do not have pedagogical education. The quality update of training in the vocational education system requires that teachers have basic professional knowledge as well as pedagogical one, creative approach to the development of specific educational problems, implementation of innovative techniques into the training process. Taking it into consideration, the development of pedagogical skills of special subjects’ teachers can be achieved in the process of advanced training.For that purpose, the technique of pedagogical skills development of special subjects’ teachers, which offers to carry out this process step by step, was designed and implemented on the advanced training courses for teachers of vocational education system. Each stage of the technique is consistent with one of the pedagogical conditions that insure the achievement of a certain level of pedagogical skills formation. The gradual build-up of components provides a consistent and systematic process, and promotes teachers’ awareness of the need for constant professional and personal self-development, development of pedagogical techniques, and formation of readiness for creative educational activities in accordance with modern requirements for the training of qualified specialists in different fields.