| Summary: | The modern model of socio-economic development of Ukraine must meet an
effective system of vocational and professional higher education, which can quickly adapt
to market demands and provide training for skilled workers who are able to be competitive
in the existing socio-economic space.. In recent years, a change in the educational paradigm
is taking place in the state: from information-cognitive, inherent in industrial society, to
personal-activity, based on a competency-based approach to the educational process,
characteristic of the post-industrial, information society. Educational practice objectively
needs to make a particular student the main figure in the educational process, thus focusing the activities of teachers of vocational education on the personification of the process of
professional training. Significant changes in society, social life, the productive sector of
the economy and the sphere of state services necessitate the training of a pedagogical
worker with a fundamentally new type of thinking. An employee who is ready to carry out
innovative pedagogical and scientific-methodical activities, professionally competent, who
is able to perform constructive actions in various situations of a professional nature and
carry out educational and methodological activities at a high scientific level in accordance
with modern educational requirements.
The article presents the main approaches to the development of professional competence
of a teacher of the system of vocational and professional higher education. One of the leading
components of professional development of a teacher is his ability to modern educational
and methodological activities, which involves designing classes based on a competency
approach, the use of innovative educational technologies, the introduction of integrated
learning in the system of vocational education.
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