Professional competence of foreign language teacher in the conditions of adoption of teacher's professional standard

The system of advanced training pays huge attention to quality of life-long education of teachers of the general education organizations in the conditions of adoption of teacher's profes¬sional standard. The author addresses a problem of professional competence of foreign language teachers. In article the concepts “competence” and “expertise” are specified. Within this article professional competences of foreign language teachers (social, sociocultural, communicative, information and projective) which are necessary for successful pedagogical performance are considered. In article the most actual and demanded informal models of advanced training of teachers of a foreign language, such as “language port-folio”, “training” and others are described. Also in article the practice-oriented modular courses which are based on a number of the principles which on basic provisions of the professional standard of the teacher are consi-dered. Especially the author selects require-ments to the organization of educational process for students of advanced training.