Pedagogical support of teachers' implementation of methodological projects in the process of course training in the system of additional professional education

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The article actualizes the problem of the quality of methodological training of primary school teachers. Attention is focused on the need to adapt additional vocational education to new challenges that are associated with the implementation of the federal state educational standard of primary general education in 2021 and the federal educational program of primary general education. The improvement of the professional potential of teaching staff is impossible without the formation of their educational activity. Nowadays, a modern teacher must independently master a wide range of professional knowledge and skills within the framework of an individual professional growth strategy. The goal of research is to form an idea of methodological project as a condition for improving methodological training of elementary school teachers in the framework of postgraduate education. The system and activity approaches became the methodological bases of the research. Within the framework of a systematic approach, the theoretical foundations of methodological teacher training were studied, approaches to its improvement in the system of additional professional education were outlined. The analysis and generalization of the key provisions of the scientists' works on the research problem allowed us to reasonably come to the definition of resources for methodological projects in improving the methodological training of primary school teachers within the framework of course advanced training. The description of the results is related to the definition of the components of the process of implementing methodological projects by students, the technology of pedagogical support for a methodological project. The practical significance of the research is determined by the description of the stages of work on the methodological project and the technology of its pedagogical support at the stage of formal professional development of teachers, the presentation of the characteristics of the levels for evaluating the methodological project of students. The article is of interest to practitioners of the general education system, additional professional education and researchers.