Digital Platform for Teachers’ Professional Development

An essential challenge is to provide an effective digital support tool for the processes of career advising, training, and teaching staff employment in the educational system. One of Kazan Federal University's major development goals is the building of a complex of evidence-based technologies and platform solutions to boost human potential in the face of emerging socioeconomic difficulties. A laboratory “Research-oriented teacher education” was established within the framework of this project, with one of its tasks being to develop an effective tool for career guidance, training, and employment of teaching staff. This platform might be dubbed the Digital Platform for Teachers’ Professional Development. The platform's goal is to automate the processes of support for a unified system of activities in educational institutions of various levels for the selection, career guidance, training, employment, and support for teaching staff career growth, as well as the creation of a single database of personnel reserve. The article gives an overview of the fundamental ideas behind the digital platform that supports teachers’ professional careers and provides a quick study of some existing digital tools for hiring and job searching in the education sector.