Development of a model for independent assessment of professional competencies of heads of educational organizations

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The adoption of the professional standard for the head of an educational organization set the task of bringing the existing technology for evaluating leaders in accordance with the new norm. Previously, the content of the requirements of the Uniform Qualification Handbook was aimed at determining the compliance and admission of the head to professional activities. The professional standard forms the zone of the manager's nearest development. Today managers need a scientific basis for the introduction of new assessment procedures. Methodology. The head of an educational organization is considered as an active subject of the regional education system, regulating its development at the level of the community of individual organizations. The efficiency of education system functioning at the regional level depends on the formation of professional competencies of the head. The study is based on the ideas of the competence model of assessment of the head. The goal of the research is to test a model of independent evaluation of professional competencies of heads of general education organizations, allowing to obtain regular and objective information about existing professional deficits, forms of professional development, the effectiveness of professional development processes of executives. Results. The author proposed the mechanism of assessing the competence of the manager on the basis of reflection of their own activities. The criteria were the individual requirements of the professional standard in two positions: “I know” and “I am able”. Based on the results of the assessment, the managers formed targeted recommendations. The best result was obtained when analyzing the formation of the competence “Management of educational organization”. The biggest problems were identified with the formation of the competence “Management of development of educational organization”. Heads are confident that they have, among other things, the following professional skills: formation of personnel policy in the organization, ensuring comprehensive security, creating a favorable psychological climate, conflict resolution, organization of financial and economic activities, document management, building a management team, planning activities, delegation of authority, maintaining a contingent of students, the ability to work without breaks and days off. The heads have formulated the main difficulties in professional activity: strategic planning, goal-setting, drawing up a development program for educational institutions, implementation of the contract system of procurement, difficulties with the development of local acts, lack of opportunity to track changes and innovations in a timely manner, inability to overcome time constraints, inability to cope with the volume of mandatory reporting. This system of evaluation of the manager's competences based on the requirements of the introduced professional standard of the head of an educational organization and reflection of own activity can be considered as an acceptable, accessible and informative tool, which allows studying and forming trends in the development of the regional education system.