Structuring the content of additional professional programs for advanced training of teachers and managers of educational organizations

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The increasing role of additional professional education in improving the professional competencies of teachers and managers involved in the implementation of public policy objectives in the field of general education is emphasized. The institutions of the relevant profile, being independent in the development and implementation of additional professional programs, do not have scientifically grounded and unified regulations for the selection and presentation of the content of additional professional education, which is reflected in the decline in the quality of developed programs, their demand in formal adult education. Accordingly, the research is focused on the development of a system-based approach to structuring the content of additional professional education of teachers and managers of educational organizations. The analysis of scientific literature is carried out, which indicates the increasing interest of researchers to the issues of adult education, the presence of prerequisites for theoretical generalization of established practices in the field of designing the content of additional professional pedagogical education. The research is carried out in the context of systemic methodology and andragogical theories. Scientific novelty of the research consists in the presentation of the author's approach to structuring the content of additional professional programs for advanced training of teachers and managers of educational organizations, based on the consideration of objective and subjective factors of adult education. Theoretical significance is expressed in the further development of ideas about the signs of selection of adult education content (informativeness, usefulness, multidimensionality) and their consideration in the design of additional professional programs. Practical significance is possessed by the algorithm of structuring the content of additional professional programs presented in the article on the basis of specifying the subject of advanced training at the level of curricula and educational and thematic plans. The application of the algorithm is demonstrated on the example of designing an additional professional program “Content and methods of pedagogical assistance to students of psychological and pedagogical classes in career guidance”.