Teacher education and professional development in the Republic of Belarus: 1990–2020 overview and future prospects

Abstract

The chapter describes the development of teacher education in Belarus over the past thirty years, to show its current state and prospects, identifying effective ways to improve the skills and retraining of specialists in the context of domestic and international educational space. The structure of the presented structural-functional and methodological model of its improvement includes the target, methodological, content, organizational-procedural and effective components. The described large-scale state, public and educational changes that have taken place in the pedagogical education of Belarus over the past three decades have helped identifying some ways of retraining teachers for pedagogical and non-pedagogical universities. The requirements to the teacher's personality are defined, the ways of cooperation of classical universities with secondary specialized educational institutions are marked, special attention is paid to the ways of improving the quality of teacher education and its practice-oriented orientation.