The profile of key competencies of teachers with vocational education and training as a reflection of employers’ requests

The article looks at the results of recent research dealing with the requests of employers in the general education sector for the content and level of formation of various aspects of the key competencies of primary school teachers. The article represents methodology and a tool for building up a profile of key competencies of graduates of the system of vocational education and training. The tool can be used at the level of the regional system of vocational education followed by setting specific tasks for the formation of key students’ competencies before professional educational organizations implementing certain vocational programs. The tool can also be used at the professional educational level to refine requests from employers representing partner organizations. The results of an empirical study are presented, which made it possible to build a profile of the key competencies of teachers with vocational education, which can be used by professional educational organizations for planning the work on the formation of students’ key competencies in the corresponding program. It is revealed that the main function of universal competencies, for employers in the field of general education, lies in the fact that universal ways of activity become the basis for mastering professional activity, though employers rarely allow situations requiring direct access to universal ways of activity. The findings suggest that it is necessary to specify the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standards for the key competencies of vocational education and training students in different programs based on the requests of employers, obtaining a specific list of planned educational results of this type for each program or group of related programs.