what is In-service Education

In-service Education

In-service education is a constant and indispensable part of the National system of continuous education. It facilitates the enhancement, development and updating of knowledge and professional skills. It also ofafers the possibility of obtaining new skills and qualifications, specialization or professions through degree programs, professional training or vocational experience acquired earlier, as well as giving an ample opportunity for individual self-study irrespective of one's age.

The main organizational principles of in-service education include:

• a scientific approach , humanism, democracy, unity, inclusiveness, differentiation, integration, continuity, modularity, personalization, end-through nature;
• close connection to market transformation processes, different forms of ownership and management;
• orientation toward viable and promising fields of human activity in response to the needs of the labor market;
• compliance with state regulations of educational standards.

The main goals of in-service education are:

• to fulfill the demands of the national economy with qualified personnel, provide continuous development of each specialist's professional abilities, develop his/her intellectual and overall cultural level , as well as to provide necessary professional knowledge and skills;
• to provide an opportunity to acquire new skills, another specialization on the basis of a degree program, professional training or vocational experience acquired earlier, develop professional knowledge and skills;
• to introduce a flexible system of continuous education and self-education, to provide adult continuous education.

The main functions of the institutions are to improve scientific, theoretical and methodological training, professional skills, broaden general cultural horizons of schoolteachers, personnel and the system of education administration institutions.

The main types of in-service training are:

• educational activities aimed at providing training, retraining, skills improvement of teachers;
• introduction of a flexible system of continuous education of the teaching staff to ensure adaptation of teachers to carry out professional activities under quickly changing social and economic relations;
• provide optimal regularity and duration of educational terms with regard to the established order of professional certification;
• introduction of up-to-date teacher-training technologies as well as advanced national and international experience in educational management and continuous education at all its stages;
• development of basic requirements expected of education providers and institution managers, and methodologists, implementing scientifically and methodologically based teacher proficiency testing system (testing, certification);
• development and introduction of different types of course training;
• development of scientific, methodological, expert recommendations for skilled management personnel resources creation and training;
• carrying out basic scientific and applied research on the problems of educational development, participating in state, branch and regional scientific programs, including government contracts as well as business contracts with other organizations and educational institutions;
• fulfillment of obligations under state contract as well as other agreements on training specialists with higher education;
• training of scholars and teacher-training professionals for the system of in-service training;
• to provide methodological, informational, consultative assistance to higher educational institutions of I-IV levels of accreditation and institutes of in-service education on the issues of management and teacher-training personnel skills development;
• to provide remunerated educational, expert, publishing, informational and others services.