Research approach - technology of paradigm competency in additional professional education

Additional professional education is shown as one of the perspective directions of educational activities. The role of additional professional education in the context of Federal State Educational policy of the Russian Federation is staticized; the sense of a competence-based paradigm in advanced training and occupational retraining of a pedagogical personnel is shown. The essence and functions of research approach in advanced training and occupational retraining of pedagogical personnel, in additional professional education in general reveals. Effective influence of research approach on results of occupational retraining and advanced training is described. The interrelation and interdependence of a competence-based paradigm as methodological basis for practice of a competence-based campaign (practician) is reasoned. The principles of a competence-based paradigm are given in advanced training and occupational retraining of pedagogical workers. In article the attention to the importance of skill in content and structure of professional and pedagogical competence is paid.