Features of professional development of teaching staff of civil protection and life safety educational and methodological centers

The aim of the article is to study the specifics of teaching staff professional development of civil protection and life safety educational and methodological centers. Research methods used by the author: content analysis of legislative documents on the organization of postgraduate education; regulatory documents on professional development of civil protection specialists; analysis and summarization of documents posted on websites of Educational and Methodological Centers of Civil Protection and Life Safety in order to determine their structure and content of the activity and to highlight the features of the professional development of the teaching staff; comparative analysis of specialty standards 011 Educational, pedagogical sciences and the specialty 263 Civil protection for the second (master's degree) of higher education to identify the common and distinctive competencies of specialists. It has been found out that the problem of the teaching staff professional development of educational and methodological centers of civil protection and life safety demands a complex solution. Their professional development in the sphere of civil protection is carried out according to functional training programs once in five years on the basis of higher educational establishments and postgraduate education. At the same time, in advanced training on the specialty 011 Educational, pedagogical sciences they have the opportunity to freely choose institutions, forms and subject of professional development. However, selected topics of various forms of professional development rarely reflect the content of their specialty 263 Civil Protection and its transformation in accordance with the post-industrial development of the country and its modern economic and socio-political situation.