Training of teaching staff in tutoring activities in the system of additional professional education

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The article actualizes the need to assist teachers in implementing individualization in their professional activities. Based on the conducted survey, it is concluded that teachers experience difficulties in teaching “difficult” contingents of children, including with the use of methods of individualization of education. Among such ways there are technologies of tutor support of schoolchildren, which allow to adapt the educational process to the needs of each schoolchild. It is suggested to use the resources of additional professional education to improve teachers' skills to apply this pedagogical technology in the practice of pedagogical activity. The goal of the research is defined: development of content and organizational and pedagogical means of training of teaching staff for tutoring activity in the system of additional professional education. On the basis of the analysis of scientific publications the conclusion about the significance of tutor support in education is made and the advantages of the system of additional education for teachers' advanced training in this sphere are outlined. The scenario and synergetic approaches are chosen as methodological bases of the present study. The scenario approach enables students to make scenarios of possible variants of events development in different situations of tutor support, and the synergetic approach provides multiplication of the result of joint activity of teachers at the lesson. The research methods are named: written survey of listeners about their possession of tutor's functions, design. The research allowed obtaining significant scientific and practical results. The created and described algorithm of consecutive drawing up of four types of scenarios of situation development in tutor support of schoolchildren possesses scientific novelty. These scenarios are “Problem”, “Solution”, “Productive interaction”, “Reflection”. The author has compiled a diagnostic toolkit to study the availability of necessary knowledge and skills, labor actions for the implementation of tutoring activity. The designed and implemented additional professional program of professional retraining “Tutor activity in the educational system” has practical significance for the development of the system of additional professional education. The article presents its content lines and main characteristics. The results of the research confirming the effectiveness of training students in the system of additional professional education are analyzed. The process of teacher training is discussed; the conditions ensuring the manifestation of the interested position by the trainees are described. The conclusion summarizes the results of the study, identifies the prospects of using the created additional professional program and the algorithm of scenario development for the professional development of teaching staff.