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ADVANCED TRAINING OF TEACHERS AS ONE OF PRIORITY TASKS OF EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
F. Kodirov
K. T. Umatalieva
This article considers the importance of raising skill levels, and their influence on the development of education in general. There is analysis of the Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, which describe the measures of improvement of teaching staff training.
В данной статье раскрывается важность повышения квалификации и её влияние на развитие образования в целом. Проанализированы Постановления Кабинета Министров Республики Узбекистан, в которых раскрыты меры по совершенствованию системы подготовки педагогических кадров.
Key words: professional development, education development, teaching methods, professional colleges, academic lyceums.
Ключевые слова: повышение квалификации, развитие образования, методы обучения, профессиональные колледжи, академические лицеи.
The Republic of Uzbekistan is a state that lists among its top priorities the growth of investments into human capital and training a well-educated and intellectually developed new generation, which is the priority value in the present-day world, and the decisive force for attaining the goals of democratic development, modernization and renewal. The national program of personnel training has been developed on the basis of analysis of national experience and global achievements in the educational system. It is focused on shaping a new generation of personnel who will have a high level of general and professional culture, and are creatively and socially active. They will be able to find their bearings in socio-political life on their own, and to set and solve prospective tasks.
In the context of the democratization of all the aspects of social life and the development of integration links between states, the problem of studying international experience in the educational system takes on important significance. In connection with this, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted the Resolution "On Measures Aimed at Improving the System of Teaching Personnel Training for Secondary Special and Professional Educational Institutions (2001), as well as the Resolution "On Further Improvement of the System of Retraining and Advanced Training of Teaching Personnel" (2006). Those documents state that for the purposes of further enhancement of the level and improvement of the quality of training, retraining and advanced training of the personnel working in the secondary special and professional education system, it is necessary to introduce advanced international professional pedagogical experience into the training process, and to use up-to-date training methods and information technologies.
Advanced training and retraining of personnel is one of the types and stages of the process of continuous professional education. More than 1500 new professional colleges and academic lyceums have been built in Uzbekistan; their
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architectural look and technical infrastructure is as good as those of the best higher educational institutions. Up-to-date laboratory, computer and production equipment installed in colleges allows their students to obtain a full amount of knowledge on general subjects, and to master modern equipment and technology within the walls of their educational institutions.
With such potential and conditions for training highly qualified personnel, it becomes possible to devote special attention to the advanced training of secondary, specialized, and professional education, because it is the teacher who is the donor of knowledge. As is known, the concept of "professional training" embraces the initial mastering of a profession/specialty of a certain type and specialization. Advanced training is meant, on one hand, as supplementary training caused by changes in the nature and content of a specialist's labor on his/her post, because of changing circumstances and requirements of science and industry. On the other hand, this could mean regular extension, updating and replenishment of knowledge in a specific scientific and professional sphere of activity. As it is known, the advanced training system, as well as the education system, is undergoing radical changes. The active search for new methods of training teachers in the advanced training system is underway. Teachers undergo advanced training at least triennially. At present, institutes for advanced training and retraining of secondary special and professional education specialists work in every region of the Republic. They are equipped to a state-of-the-art level, and meet all international standards.
Major efforts aimed at the reorganization of the system of professional colleges and academic lyceums teaching staff training and advanced training were made within the framework of the National Personnel Training Program. The essence of those efforts was a radical revision of the standards of methodological and training aids, and approving new ones that would meet the present-day requirements, as well as a radical change in the criteria of assessment and incentives of teachers' work.
Translated from Russian by Znanije Central Translastions Bureas
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