Motivation of teachers’ informal education in the network pedagogical communities

The article reveals the potential of the network professional pedagogical community as a tool to create conditions to support the continuing education and personal development of the teacher. The continuing education is implemented in this case by means of informal professional development in the form of active participation of teaching staff in the activities of network professional communities. The motives determining the degree of teacher’s engagement in the network cooperation are described. The educational events are the Core of the network community activities. The distance learning programs proposed in the professional community solve many problems of developing the teacher’s professional competences. The network interaction of educators allows to provide not only a professional social communication, but also to support the teacher mentoring system, the remote consultation as a form of informal professional development, self-learning and mutual learning of teachers.