RATIONALE FOR THE CONCEPT OF DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL STANDARD FOR AN INTERNATIONAL TEACHER

Abstract

In the article, the relevance of developing a professional standard for the «international teacher» is substantiated, which is driven by the demands of the professional community for the normative regulation of labour functions and competences of teachers working in a multicultural international educational environment. The professional community demonstrates a clear need for a well-structured model of the international teacher that could serve as a basis for designing and modernising teacher education programmes. Using the case of Altai State Pedagogical University, the authors examine the possibilities of employing the projected content of the professional standard for the international teacher as a conceptual and methodological framework for constructing the aims, learning outcomes and content of future teachers’ training. The article analyses approaches to aligning the anticipated labour functions and professional competences of the international teacher with the intended learning outcomes, structure and practical components of bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes implemented at the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication. It is shown that the anticipatory integration of the requirements formulated by the professional community for the international teacher into the graduate competence model, curricula and course content creates a foundation for the subsequent formalisation of these requirements in the form of a professional standard for the international teacher.