School as a self-learning organization

The article proposes specific measures to promote continuous teachers professional development in an educational organization (e.g. a secondary school). Such measures include the creation of a school-based information system and educational services, representing the diversity of opportunities for continuing professional development of school teachers, as a response to the diversity of individual needs in such development. The construction of the system of supplementary professional development is put forward as the most important task of the modern school. The author provides a step-by-step version of an on sight training programme for secondary school teachers. The programme allows to determine key professional competences of a school teacher and build up a flexible system of continuing professional development at school. As an example, the author describes such forms of professional training as mentoring and coaching. An active position of a school which is ready for innovation, requiring a permanent development of key competences, regardless of personnel’s professional experience and skills is believed a necessary condition of continuous professional development of secondary school teachers. Motivated innovative school activities and personal teachers’ interest make their professional development informal.