Methodological foundations for improving teachers' readiness to support schoolchildren's career guidance

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The article actualizes the need to improve the teachers' readiness to support schoolchildren's career guidance. It is suggested that the purposefulness of this activity, organized within the framework of additional professional education, requires the identification of methodological foundations. The goal of research is to identify the methodological foundations that will allow to purposefully carry out the improvement in additional professional education of teachers' readiness to support career guidance. Analysis of the literature proves the relevance of the problem of improving the readiness of teachers to support career guidance organized on a systematic basis. It is stated that there are scientific prerequisites for identifying the methodological basis of this activity. However, there is a lack of such foundations in relation to the description of the practice of implementation of additional vocational education of adult learners. The main result of the article is that the methodological basis for the organization of advanced training, aimed at improving the studied type of readiness, is identified and substantiated in the framework of the study. Based on the proposed methodology, the principles that can be placed in the basis of pedagogical activities to improve the studied type of readiness of pedagogical employees are formulated. The scientific novelty of the article consists in the fact that the characteristics of the systemic, synergetic, andragogical approach in the light of studying the process of improving the readiness of teachers to support schoolchildren's career guidance allows to formulate a number of pedagogical principles that can be used to design an appropriate pedagogical system. Theoretical significance is to expand theoretical ideas about the process of improving in additional professional education the readiness of teachers to support career guidance. The practical significance comes from the applicability of the results for the design of appropriate pedagogical technology. This fact opens up the prospects for further research into the possibilities of applying the proposed methodology and theoretical foundations in practical activities.