THE CONTENT OF INFORMATION AND ANALYTICAL COMPETENCE OF THE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL LEADER

The methodology of determining the content and structure of information and analytical competence of the head of vocational school with the usage of the focal objects method has been initiated. Its essence lies in transferring the traits of randomly selected objects to information and analytical competence of vocational school leaders - the focal object. The utilisation rate of specific characteristics of information-analytical competence used by the heads of vocational schools institutions in their management activity has been determined. The amount of knowledge, skills and personal qualities which provides the ability to implement them in practice and to take management decisions is considered as characteristic features. This rate verifies the information and allows arriving at conclusions on the pedagogic reasonability in the structure and content of information and analytical competence of a leader of a vocational school: cognitive, functional, and personal components. The elaborated contents of information and analytical competence of a leader of a vocational school reflects its professional orientation most completely. The research results promote for working out of the author pedagogical project “The development of information and analytical competence of a vocational school leader”. It comprises objectives and tasks, the programme, study guide, website and blog. It can be implemented in methodological activity of regional vocational academic resource centres to support the Extended Education Programme for education managers. The modern educational technologies of development of vocational school leader’s information and analytical competence have been offered. Among them are both which are used in traditional way of teaching and innovative ones. Pedagogical experiment has justified the practicability of lectures as a form of teaching methods and training complex aimed at development of specific components of the competence structure. The potential of workshop usage for the personnel training is revealed. The author outlines the methodology of e-portfolio as an efficient pedagogic technology aimed at the development of information and analytical competence under the conditions of disperse location of educational institutions and routine workload of educational managers. The results of comparative analysis of information and analytical competence cognitive and functional component development at the state and developing phases of experiment have been presented.

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