Activity of regional methodologist as a resource for improving the quality of education

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. Nowadays, improving the quality of general education is one of the priorities of educational policy in the Russian Federation. The quality of education directly depends on the teachers’ professional competence and practice-oriented focus of advanced training. A national system of teachers’ advanced training has been created. The school subjects departments, which provide field-specific training, cannot supply the comprehensive development of teaching skills. To solve this problem, the methodologists and experienced teachers - the actors of scientific and methodological activity in the region - whose pedagogical activity gives the best educational results, are increasingly engaged. The goal of the research is to describe the experience of implementing the model of pedagogical support of teachers’ by the regional methodologists in order to improve the quality of education while implementing the educational projects in Irkutsk region. Methodology (materials and methods). The methodological foundations of the research are the main provisions of continuing education, the concept of the unified federal system of scientific and methodological support for teachers and managers. The author analyses federal and regional regulatory documents, the results of scientific research, uses such methods as observation, comparison, generalization and others. Results. The article describes a teachers’ support model to improve the quality of education. This model is a combination of five content components: individual and group, content and goal-oriented, functional, spatiotemporal, and diagnostic and analytical. The characteristics of the regional methodologist’ activity is described through the content of each component of the teachers’ support model. The results of implementing the model on supporting teachers by the regional methodologists when they organized Russian assessment of the quality of education according to the PISA model in Irkutsk region are presented. The facts of the effectiveness of presented model are given.