Basic Directions of Training Educators in Employing Web-Resources for Professional Self-Development
The priority task of the present-day system of supplementary professional education, aimed at timely retraining of educators and providing for innovative ways of developing educators, is to elaborate a system of continuous education and post-graduate qualification upgrading, where self-development plays an important role. One of the critical factors in meeting requirements imposed on the new system of supplementary professional education is to provide wide use of Web technologies potential for educators� self-development. To self-improve their qualification, the educators should master information and communicational competencies. Teachers should be engaged in and develop by themselves professional network communities, to employ teleconferencing technologies, to participate in various thematic forums and social networks in order to involve their colleagues in the process of professional self-improvement, to initiate various ways of pedagogical interaction, based on various types of communications, personal contacts etc. One of the primary tasks, aimed at ensuring the innovative features of education in this country for the period up to 2020, would be to establish the system of continuous education, training and retraining of educators and professional development of post-graduates, �yesterday�s students�.