Innovative reactor of educational initiatives as a new format of continuous education of teachers

The attempt to transfer the notion of “innovative rector” from the high-tech sphere to the field of advanced additional professional education is made because of the principle of interdisciplinary. The article substantiates the attitude of the technology “innovative reactor of educational initiatives” to breakthrough technologies; the possibility of its design based on mechanisms of project-resource management is theoretically proved and the effectiveness of the developed format of project-network organization of teachers in terms of additional professional education is experimentally proved. On the basis of metaphorical method the essence of innovative reactor as a mechanism of professional development of teachers is revealed. The hypothesis of using the metaphorical method in the introduction of a new category of “innovative reactor of educational initiatives”, the leading function of which is to transform new types and methods of educational activities in the socio-cultural norms and patterns of professional activity of teachers, was confirmed. The practical value of the work is determined by the possibility of implementing the technology “innovative reactor of educational initiatives” at different levels of the system of continuous adult education for the design of educational processes aimed at the formation of the subject of innovative activity.