The network pedagogical communities as a platform of informal education of teachers

In the article reveals the capacity of network professional pedagogical community as instrument of creation of conditions for support the continuous education and personal development of the teacher. The continuous education is carried out in this case by means of an informal professional development in the form of active participation the pedagogical worker in activity of network professional communities. The motives which are defining degree of an involvement of the teacher into network cooperation are described. The educational events are the сore of activity of network community. The educational remote programs which are offered in the professional community solve many problems of development of teacher professional competences. The network interaction of educators allows to provide not only a professional social communication, but also competently to support the system of pedagogical mentoring, the remote consultation as a form of informal advanced training, self-training and mutually training of teachers.