The potential of temporary event-based professional communities in the development of teachers of additional education

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The quality of professional activity of teachers, including the sphere of additional education, largely depends on the conditions that are created for the development of their professionalism inside and outside the organization. One of the actual directions of modern theory and practice of advanced training of pedagogical workers is the study of the role of professional communities and societies in the development of teachers' professionalism. The authors of the research paid attention to the principles and mechanisms of formation of temporary event-based professional communities, conditions that contribute to the development of professionalism of teachers of additional education. Pedagogical activity of a teacher of supplementary education requires from him/her the manifestation of knowledge and skills of both subject and meta-subject character, and creativity and individual style of activity is an attribute of his/her professionalism. The teacher of the sphere of additional education clearly understands the motivational basis of the child's choice of classes in a children's association, where his/her activity is directly related to the creation of a situation of success in achieving results in mastering the content of an additional general education program. Therefore, the research of the potential of temporary event professional communities in the development of professionalism of teachers of additional education has a synergistic nature, taking into account the specifics of both the pedagogical activity of a teacher of additional education and the nature of the formation and development of these communities. The goal of our research is to identify and substantiate the conditions for the development of professionalism of teachers of additional education included in the activities of temporary event-based professional communities. Methodological bases of the conducted research are event and andragogical approaches, theoretical foundations of formal and informal education. The following methods were used in the research: analysis of theoretical and empirical studies, analysis and generalization of pedagogical experience, including our own experience of scientific and methodological support of formal and informal education of teachers of additional education.