Teachers’ professional development under the conditions of networking cooperation

Modernization processes in education are associated with training of specialists able to professional and personal self-determination. The article clarifies the concept “professional and personal self-determination”, which represents one’s own development of one’s personal professional plan, conscious choice of profession on the basis of understanding and evaluating oneself in profession, comparison of one’s personal capacities and abilities and the requirements of the future profession. The authors of the article, having working experience in higher and secondary vocational education, note that professional and personal self-determination of students and their socio-cultural development are impossible within a separate educational organization. The most relevant, optimal and effective way to solve the problem of students’ vocational and personal self-determination is a network organization. The article describes the innovative platform for implementing the model of networking cooperation of additional and professional education organizations in the Chelyabinsk region. The implementation of the networking cooperation model is provided by the complex of pedagogical conditions, all of which need a methodological support. In general, the networking cooperation, as an innovative form of education, requires improvement of teachers’ professional skill. The article describes the features of the professional development of teachers participating in networking cooperation.