The article describes the possibilities of course professional development for specialists who teach Russian at multi-ethnic schools. Present technologies, methods, and forms of this process are described. Raising the level of teachers’ skills is organized within the process of acquiring new cognitive tools which will lead to the reorientation in both the activity itself and in the subject of this activity. Teachers’ competencies development is performed through the professional activity reflection. The author describes approaches (competence and individual ones) to designing the programs of skills development. Besides, the components of teacher’s professional activity, required for consideration of structuring the development of professional competence of the teacher, are mentioned.

course professional development, multiethnic school, professional competence, expert’s need.

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