The Ways of Lecturers’ Professional Self-Improvement at Higher Educational Establishments

У статті розглянуто проблему професійного самовдосконалення викладачів вищого навчального закладу. Проаналізовано сутність поняття «професійне самовдосконалення» та його основні ознаки. Виділено умови, що сприяють розвитку професійного самовдосконалення педагога: спрямованість свідомості на себе як на суб’єкт педагогічної діяльності; здатність до рефлексії; організація самопізнання; використання спільних форм діяльності; широке залучення до різних форм педагогічної діяльності.The article deals with the process of lectures’ professional self-improvement. The aim of the article was to review the ways of lectures’ professional self-improvement at higher educational establishments. The author claims that this problem is important, topical and needs contemporary ways of its analyse. Several methods have been used during the article preparation such as: system analysis of documents and scientific researches of the problem investigated, with the help of which the possible aspects of the problem’s examination have been revealed; terminological analysis, which was useful in the process of identification of different approaches to the term «professional self-improvement». In the article the essence of the concept «professional self-improvement» and its basic features have been analysed. Conditions that cause the development of lectures’ professional self-improvement have been distinguished. They are: capability for reflection; self-organization; usage of common forms of activity; involvement in different forms of educational activities; opportunities for comparing and evaluating professionally important qualities and skills; formation of right assessment attitude towards themselves and others