Larisa G. Smyshlyaeva

The research aims is to identify the contexts reflecting the conceptual and technological update of the practice of organizing and maintaining training in classes of psychological and pedagogical orientation. The reasons for the need for such an update are outlined — new features of the today’s world, its challenges, and problems. The authors describe four value-semantic dominants of the new understanding and purpose (mission) of pedagogical work, that creates an educational support for all participants in educational relations when building interaction with today’s world and designing a pedagogical trajectory of professional development in this interaction. The authors present reasoned judgments that enrich ideas about the mission, value priorities, and new forms of professional activity of today’s teachers. The research proposes possible variants of the designation of education as a space of opportunities for personal self-realization in the teaching profession and the possibility of building individual professional and pedagogical career strategies. The authors propose the spectrum of role manifestations of the subject of pedagogical activity in today’s educational practices. The authors actualize new types of pedagogical tests and pedagogical actions that ensure the productivity of pedagogical activity in renewing of the technological mode of the economy and cultural transformation of public life. A list of possible functionally defined roles in the teaching profession is defined, which determines the dynamic development of human potential. The basic provisions are formulated that reveal value-oriented, meaningful, organizational-activity, communication and technological aspects of changes in the field of practical work on the professional orientation of schoolchildren to pedagogical activity. The materials of this research are prepared using various methods, including theoretical and structural analysis, the method of expert assessments, focus groups, and study of regional experience (interviews and analysis of methodological materials).