Using additional professional education resources to help teachers learn how to support schoolchilren's professional self-determination

Relevance. It has been revealed that professional self-determination today is considered as an educational result, and facilitation of this process is an educational task and type of pedagogical activity of the teacher. Difficulties of teachers of general education schools in finding and implementing adequate forms of pedagogical influence on professional self-determination have been established. The problem of finding ways for pedagogical employees to master promising strategies to promote schoolchildren’s professional self-determination is actualized. In this regard, the content and ways of implementing additional educational programs aimed at mastering promising strategies to promote schoolchildren’s professional self-determination are defined as the purpose of the study. The results of the literature review, demonstrating the interest of researchers in the phenomenon of schoolchildren’s professional self-determination, issues of pedagogical influence on this process, resources of additional professional education in the training of teachers to support the professional self-determination of schoolchildren are presented. It is pointed out that in the existing experience insufficient attention is paid to the ways of influence on personal qualities, knowledge and skills important for successful professional self-determination. The methodology of designing additional professional programs is presented, which allowed to identify the leading principles of educational content selection and implementation. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the substantiation of informative, multidimensional and useful content of an additional professional program that promotes teachers' mastery of ways to promote schoolchildren’s professional self-determination. This program takes into account the formulated principles, and includes information on a wide range of ways to promote professional self-determination. Practical significance is the description of ways to implement this program, offering to master not only information aspects, but also opportunities to share knowledge and practical testing of the information obtained.