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TRAJECTORIES OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEADERS OF GENERAL EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS // Pedagogical Review. 2022. Issue 5 (45). P. 128-135

The issue of professional development of heads of educational organizations is being updated in connection with the release of a new professional standard “Head of an educational organization (management of a preschool educational organization and a general educational organization)”. The research program is presented with the substantiation of the sample constructed according to the criterion of the maximum number of resilient schools in the regions according to the PISA model. An analysis of the results of a sociological survey of school principals from 21 constituent entities of the Russian Federation on participation in various forms of vocational training “before” and “after” appointment to a position, on the preference for choosing a form of professional development, on the subject of advanced training and professional retraining programs, on the respondents’ assessment of the degree of need in improving their professional competence. Conclusions are drawn on changing the content of the training of heads of general educational organizations: from management, organization and personnel management to pedagogical leadership, as a resource for the development of the general education system in the format of management practices with a focus on the achievements of the educational environment, improving the quality of education. Recommendations are given on the development of a personalized system of advanced training for heads of general educational organizations, and on the development of a mechanism for spending non-budgetary funds of an educational organization on additional professional training for heads.

Keywords: professional development, leader, educational organization, sociological survey

Updating effective forms of mentoring in the system of general education // Pedagogical Review. 2023. Issue 2 (48). P. 77-85

The issue of the development of mentoring, the system for managing the movement of mentoring in the pedagogical sphere, the dissemination of its forms in the system of general education is being updated. The aim of the study is to determine the essential characteristics of the mentoring phenomenon, various forms of mentoring in the Soviet period. The research methodology includes the analysis of domestic and foreign pedagogical scientific literature on the forms of mentoring, content analysis, generalization and systematization of data. Research results. The content analysis of the definitions of the concept of “mentoring” in the educational sphere is presented. The essential characteristics of mentoring are singled out, the functions of mentoring are disclosed: information, orientation, mobilization, constructive, communicative, research. The features of pedagogical mentoring in the Soviet period are revealed in order to enrich the experience of organizing pedagogical guidance for the professional development of young teachers. The essential characteristics of the varieties of mentoring forms are revealed. A comparison of the main components of the mentoring system in the Soviet and modern periods is presented: organization of the mentoring system; forms and methods of work with mentors; forms of transferring the experience of mentors. It is concluded that it is necessary to further develop the system for managing the mentoring movement in the pedagogical sphere, develop a unified approach to the development of fundamental documents on mentoring, and further develop the content and forms of work of mentors in pedagogical science.

Keywords: the conceptual apparatus of “mentoring”, functions of mentoring, organizational forms of mentoring, methods of mentoring, general education