EVALUATING METHODS FOR THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR INSERVICE TEACHERS

The article is devoted to the methodology of evaluating the effectiveness of additional professional education programs for the Perm Krai teachers. Additional professional education is aimed at continuous improvement of professional competencies of teachers throughout their lives, inter alia to meet their educational and professional needs, constant adaptation to changing conditions of professional activity and social environment, improvement of professional qualifications, and preparation for performing new professional activities. The authors put forward the model of evaluating the effectiveness of additional professional education programs, describe the principles (criteria, unity of approaches to evaluation, evaluation complexity, variability and flexibility of evaluating forms, openness and acces-sibility) and types of evaluation (assessment by subject, evaluation of the effectiveness of training by the performer, evaluation by the expert). In order to study the quality of the teachers’ professional competence, as well as to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of such programs, a survey was conducted of the heads and deputy heads of 27 educational organizations in Perm and the Perm Krai. This article presents the results of the survey with brief analytical comments. The results of the monitoring conducted on the basis of feedback from specific customers, allow us to conclude about the record-ed increase in the success of the overwhelming number of teachers who have completed course training, which reliably indicates its effectiveness. The analysis of the monitoring makes it possible to organ-ize the work of the professional development system more effectively, the system that meets both the needs of teachers and managers of educational organizations, and the requirements of modernizing education.