IMPROVING THE PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF TEACHERS IN RURAL SCHOOLS

Abstract

The relevance of the article is due to the need for focusing on the development of rural schools and raising the level of competence of rural school teachers. The article brings to light problems and difficulties that a rural school teacher faces. The specifics of the professional activities of rural school teachers is revealed. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of a rural teacher professional activity and determine the ways of improving his/her professional competence. In the article, the authors clarified the concepts of “professional competence”, “rural teacher”, “professional competence of a rural school teacher”, “teacher advanced training” and “personalization”. The authors’ merit is the analysis of rural schools specifics, as well as the identification of ways of improving the professional competence of a rural school teacher through advanced training and making an individual educational route for a teacher’s professional growth. The conducted research has proved that the developed professional competence allows a rural school teacher to organize and manage the educational process efficiently, thereby providing optimal conditions for teaching, upbringing and development of students.