Modern Trends and Specifics of Additional Professional Education of University Teachers

The subject of consideration in this article is additional professional education as a pedagogical system, an integrated set of methods, for,ms and means of obtaining, expandi,ng and deepening the competencies, which have already been formed earli andas acquiring new ones. Nowadays, the development and further improvement of additional professional education have become actual in recent decades. In Russia, this is carried out in the context of a profound restructuring of society. Therefore it has its own characteristic features due to socio-economic transformations and corresponding changes in the labour market. It is stated that additional professional education of teachers acquires a special social status and is distinguished by its motives and values, goals and objectives, forms of organization and content, teaching technologies and methods of control and assessment. The goals and objectives of additional professional education of teachers have been represented, including the formation of their motivation for professional growth, advanced training, professional retraining, as well as the prevention of professional and the strain of personality, overcoming professional and personal crises. The result of studying this issue was the identification of modern trends and directions for the further development of the system of additional professional education for teachers