Priority areas of professional competence development of the teacher

In view of changes in education, teachers’ professional development becomes particularly important. This raises the question of finding effective tools and methods of teachers’ professional development. The aim of  the study is  to identify current directions of professional competence development based on the data obtained from the study on the difficulties the teachers face during the implementation of professional and pedagogical activities. As a result of the study, priority areas for the professional competence development, as well as problem areas of didactics of vocational education were identified.This study is the first stage in the development of a didactic multimedia complex, which can become an effective tool for the organisation of teachers’ professional development.