Professional qualifications of teaching staff of general and vocational education and training[Профессиональные Квалификации Педагогических Работников Общего И Среднего Профессионального Образования]

Research Relevance. The landscape of the educational services market is undergoing significant changes that require the modernization of most of the labor functions of teachers, provoke the emergence of new professional positions and "hybrid" qualifications. The proposed research is devoted to the development of tools for translating the changing requirements to the results and processes in the general and vocational education and training system into new or updated labor functions of teaching staff in the context of building up a sectoral framework of qualifications in education. The object of the research is the professional qualifications of teaching staff in the Russian general and vocational education and training system in the context of qualification requests of types of professional activity, requirements of the current professional standards, and the targets of national educational development programs. The purpose of the research is to scientifically substantiate and test in practice the technology of modeling prospective labor functions and the corresponding professional qualifications of teachers of the general education system in the context of changing demands of the labor market and customers of the education industry. Main results and conclusions. The qualification requirements to teachers of the general and vocational education and training system, as well as corresponding professional qualifications and characteristics, are provided in the descriptors of the Sectoral Qualifications Framework in Education. The actual labor functions of a teacher in the vocational education and training system, a form master, a methodologist have been established, as well as a list of prospective labor functions of the teaching staff, which need to be institutionalized in the short term to ensure adequate response by educational organizations to changing requirements and demands to the processes and results of its work. The research has revealed the value put on the relevance of actual labor functions and the demand for promising labor functions of teaching staff by the employers in the industry. The ideas of employers in the field of education about the ways of building a professional career as a teacher are summarized. Contradictions are revealed between industry employers’ recognition of the diversification of pedagogical activity context in an educational organization and the stable professional and social stereotype of a "universal teacher". The hypothesis of hybridization of labor functions as a basic way of development of the sectoral qualification system in the field of education has been confirmed.