Professional development in the continuing education and personal development of the teacher

Abstract. The teachers’ professional development system is considered as a center of teachers’ continuing education, suggesting interchange of educational activity and practical professional activity. The article reveals the main purpose of the professional development system - development of a teacher as a person and as a specialist, a professional with a deep understanding of the social, cul-tural and educational situation. The article considers the fundamental principles of multi-level professional development system, its main fuctions: diagnostic, compensatory, cognitive, predictive, adaptive. The article describes ways to solve the problem of improving the content and organizational forms of training in the teachers’ professional development system, structural and functional characteristics of the content, the development of teachers’ systemic and methodological knowledge, the scientific understanding of the pedagogical process construction, the teachers’ preparation to the pupils’ personal development in the learning process. Education and competence of future teachers are indicators of the professional development effectiveness.