Development of information culture among teaching staff of general secondary education institutions

Abstract

Information culture is an integral component of the labor efficiency of specialists in a wide range of fields of professional employment. Information and communication technologies have undergone rapid changes in the main methods and types of human activity in the social environment, which encourage potential users to constantly master them and adapt to new types of professional activity. Professional development programs for teaching staff are created taking into account the current trends in the development of the information technology market and the possibilities of their use in the educational process by teaching staff of general secondary education institutions. The article presents the results of research on the development of information competence of pedagogical workers. A theoretical analysis of the problem of formation of information culture in the conditions of modern education was carried out. The functions of information competence in the structure of teacher professionalism are defined. Within the framework of the scientific project of NASU “Civil Service Competency Framework” (2018), we have developed a method of studying invariants of professional activity of civil servants. The ability to handle a great deal of information, that is viewed by us as an evolutionarily appropriate necessity, is the basis of personal and professional success in present-day information society. Based on the results of our research, we found that only a third of the subjects have developed the competencies that form the basis of information culture. It has been established that the socio-psychological level of information culture is developed at a low level among all teaching staff, regardless of length of service. The technological level, which is related to the ability to use modern ICT and search and accumulate information, is formed in a larger number of researched subjects, compared to the socio-psychological level.