Improvement of professional skills of a tutor in training students for subject olympiads

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to quality control in education and, accordingly, various control and measurement procedures have been carried out, including the subject Olympiad for schoolchildren. The content of subject Olympiads goes beyond school curricula, which requires additional qualification of teachers in subject knowledge, pedagogy and psychology. Therefore, the task of the professional development system for teachers is to find mechanisms to promote the professional development of teachers as tutors. The goal of the research is to identify ways to improve the professional skills of a teacher-mentor in achieving the effectiveness in educational and cognitive activities of students in the educational process. Methodology. The leading idea of our pedagogical research is the practical transformation of the organization of training students for subject Olympiads and the introduction of practices for working with gifted children in the educational process. The main research methods are the analysis of scientific literature and the results of practical activities in the field of preparing students for subject Olympiads. Results. The data of the survey of teachers of various subjects of general education organizations showed that they are not ready enough to work with potential participants of subject Olympiads of schoolchildren. Based on this, we identified ways to assist teachers-tutors, presented in the form of recommendations: pedagogical, psychological-pedagogical and methodological.