STANDARDISATION OF VOCATIONAL TEACHER TRAINING IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The study relevance of the vocational teacher training standardisation is determined by the need for rapid adaptation of the vocational education system to changes in various spheres of public life, as well as the dynamic development of economic sectors, the requirements and needs of the modern labour market for qualified specialists.

Purpose: to analyse the standardisation state of vocational teacher education in Ukraine.

Methods: analysis of normative and scientific literature and generalisation of its results to identify the development state of the problem and to clarify the features of the professional standard for the training of vocational teachers.

Results: the article substantiates the peculiarities of standardisation of professional training of vocational teachers, analyses the content of the professional standard "Vocational Teacher", describes the functions and competences of a vocational teacher that should be taken into account when updating the educational standard.

Conclusions. The processes of education standardisation demonstrate its complexity, complexity and multifactoriality. The effectiveness of education standardisation is ensured by the active participation of teachers in generating ideas and their practical implementation to improve the professional training of future specialists and solve problems in education.

The problems of standardising the professional training of vocational teachers include the following factors: objective (insufficient financial support from international partners and donors; lack of a single national-level information portal accessible to a wide range of users; low level of employers’ involvement, relevant central executive authorities, non-governmental on-the-job training centres, associations of educational institutions, teachers, researchers, etc.); subjective (experience lack of the executors; overload of central executive authorities employees and other stakeholders with other fluid and operational work; low level of motivation of the executors, etc.).

The successful standardisation of education is facilitated by the functioning of the National Qualifications Agency, the creation of the National Qualifications Register and the website of the National Qualifications System, and the activities of qualification centres and sectoral (professional) councils for the development of qualifications.