Integrated competence of teaching and academic staff for the system of postgraduate pedagogical education

This article analyzes the current normative and legal documents in the field of education, which define and describe the competence of teaching and academic staff of the system of postgraduate pedagogical education, namely: the Law of Ukraine "On Education", the National Qualifications Framework, the Approximate curriculum for training of trainers for educating teachers who will teach first-year students in 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 academic years, Typical educational program of organization and improvement of teaching staff’s professional skills by Postgraduate Pedagogical Educational Institutions, Regulations on advanced studying and internship work of academic staff of Higher Educational Institutions. Theoretical and methodological substantiation of the components of integral competence of teaching and academic staff for the system of postgraduate pedagogical education is made: general (capable of transferring from one subject field to another) and professional (applied in a certain subject field of science and is characteristic of it) competence. Abilities, skills and competences as a component of general (research, teamwork, problem solving, managerial, creativity, communicative skills, information transfer) and professional (occupational, subject) competencies that are clearly relevant to a specific field of scientific knowledge, possibility to demonstrate this knowledge and ability to apply research methods and tools (substantive, normative, legal, organizational, andragogical, constructive, control and evaluation, etc.) are identified and specified. It is concluded that the concept "integral competence of academic staff for the system of postgraduate education" is understood as the ability to solve difficult specialized complex tasks and professional problems in the field of educational sciences by means of psychological and pedagogical, scientific research, innovative, scientific and methodological, project, managerial, cultural and educational activities in the dynamic conditions of postgraduate, higher education institutions, based on the knowledge of andragogy, synergetics, acmeology, as well as new paradigms of native and foreign science in the field of education that provides deep rethinking of existing and creation of new integrated knowledge and / or professional practice, implementation of innovations and contributes to the qualitative performance of their duties, expanding their competence, etc