Improvement of Professional Competence of General Education Teachers for Engineering Curriculum

The paper presents the results of the research on the problem of the purposeful development of professional skills of teachers in engineering education. The current research aimed to determine the learning conditions that could ensure the improvement of the pedagogical competence of general disciplines teachers at engineering and technical schools. The research was performed in two stages. The first stage was devoted to scientific publications, reports, and survey analysis to determine the relevant learning conditions. In the second stage, to determine the most significant learning conditions for the effective development of the general education teachers’ professional skills, the initial list of learning conditions was examined and optimized by a group of 10 experts. To assess the unity of experts’ opinions, the criterion of concordance was calculated. Thus, the experts determined the most significant circumstances predicted to develop general education teachers’ pedagogical competence. The learning conditions were also ranked according to the degree of their influence on improving the general education teachers’ professional skills. Creating such conditions could provide the teachers with continuous professional development for the efficient engineering students’ training.