Еnsuring the quality of primary education by managing the development of primary scool trachers' professional competence

Abstract

Professional development of primary school teachers is one of the leading factors that have the greatest impact on ensuring the quality of students' knowledge. As the experience of the educational community shows, it is no longer enough to acquire a profession once and for life. Pedagogical workers must be ready for changes and constant professional growth. The content of the article reveals the question of what competencies and personal qualities are necessary for a person in any professional activity. It was determined that the main problems faced by teachers in general, and primary school teachers in particular, are: constant complication of the content of education, high level of educational standards; complication of education problems; continuous search for productive and innovative technologies of education and training; solving complex professional and pedagogical problems that require the integration of knowledge, practical skills and skills from sciences related to pedagogy; work in the information environment. This is what directed our research to compare the interpretation of the essence and content of the concepts "monitoring of primary education", "quality control of primary education", "assessment of the quality of primary education". Based on the above, we clarified the concepts of "quality of primary education" and "management of ensuring the quality of primary education" in the context of the New Ukrainian School: by "quality of primary education" we will understand a set of indicators that reveal various aspects of activity at the first level of comprehensive general secondary education, the content of primary education, forms and methods of education, material and technical base, personnel; and under "primary education quality assurance management" we understand a holistic system of intra-school pedagogical information, which is based directly on the management model, which reveals the procedural and effective aspects of management, where monitoring occupies a special place as a management tool for evaluating the quality of primary education. In order to carry out constant observation, recording and assessment of the quality of management of the professional competence development, in the article we considered the factors and quality criteria of the professional development of primary school teachers.