Тraditions and innovations in continuing education of a rural school teasher: summer pedagogical school

The article continues to acquaint with the results of a historical and pedagogical study of the theory and practice of professional and personal formation and development of a rural teacher in Russia, carried out in the discourse of his lifelong education (journal «Pedagogy of rural school», № 1, 2021). At the stage of the development of rural schools and rural teachers (XIX – early XX centuries), the prerequisites for the continuous education of a rural teacher are found in such forms of advanced training as teachers' congresses and courses for folk (zemstvo, rural) teachers. The illustration of the possibility of reviving traditions and harmonizing the ideas of educators with the development trends of modern rural school and its teacher is the Summer Pedagogical School for leaders and teachers of rural educational organizations of the Republic of Karelia. The reliance on traditions in improving the qualifications of rural teachers is manifested in the concept, content, structure and forms of implementation of the program of additional pedagogical education, carried out in this format. The article substantiates the viability and prospects of the following ideas of teachers' congresses and courses: 1. The actual content of the additional education of a rural teacher, adequate to modern trends in the development of education and at the same time verified (coordinated) with the specifics of rural school, professional activity and lifestyle of a teacher in the in the village. 2. The interdependence and interconnection of theory and practice, the practical orientation of additional pedagogical education and its focus on the translation of learning outcomes into the life of rural school, into the professional activities of a rural teacher. 3. Democratic creative atmosphere, «friendly interface» of the Summer Pedagogical School of rural teachers. 4. Integration of resources of subjects of joint educational activities – organizers and participants of the Summer Pedagogical School. The innovativeness of the summer pedagogical school manifested in the compatibility of team and personalized training, in a modular approach to the construction and implementation of the educational program, in the priority of active, interactive technologies, in the use of information technologies and etc.