THE DIAGNOSIS OF TEACHERS’ POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION QUALITY
The article dwells on the problem of the quality of postgraduate pedagogical education through training courses. It presents the results of diagnostics of the quality of professional competence development, revealed by questioning the participants of advanced training courses of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University. To identify the level of organization and teaching of online training courses, as well as to determine the difficulties that arose in their learning process, we conducted a survey of participants. Based on the analysis of the results of the survey, we made some proposals that participants consider a priority for their professional development.The article demonstrates the experience of the Faculty of Foreign Languages in organizing postgraduate training courses. The program of the advanced training course for English teachers at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University concerns current Standards in the subject “The methods of teaching English”. The new program recommends implementing interactive teaching approaches and technologies, creative tasks, case studies, projects into the training courses. The main components of a teacher’s professional activity are aware of the needs of learners, planning and organizing lessons, assessing the level of communicative competencies, as well as the mastering of English, methods of teaching, managing their professional development. We discussed the conditions and forms of training, content materials, some specific difficulties in organizing training courses. Keywords: postgraduate pedagogical education, training courses, quality assessment, questionnaires, methodological competence, digital competence, location of training courses, modern methods of teaching English, online courses.