The aim of this article is to substantiate the requirements to the head of an inclusive education institution in the context of modern realities, to present the results of an experimental study of the development of education manager’s inclusive competence, the cognitive-activity and analytical-performance components of readiness to solve professional practical tasks. The professional profile of the head of an inclusive education institution (manager-leader-expert) is singled out, which combines pedagogical, psychological, inclusive competences, professional skills, as well as personal, business and professional qualities, value orientations, etc. The results of an empirical study of the level of inclusive readiness of modern leaders to form an inclusive environment in an educational institution are presented. Education managers from Ivano-Frankivsk and Cherkasy regions (Ukraine) (having 5-15 years of management experience) were involved in the experiment. Positive dynamics of increasing the level of readiness in the experimental group, for whom a series of thematic exercises (lectures, workshops, webinars) using innovative educational technologies was carried out.

The research addresses the need to assess the degree of professional burnout of teachers of higher education institutions of Ukraine and to analyse connection between the level of teachers’ professional burnout and their organizational-professional (type of education, teaching experience) and socio-demographic (age, gender, marital status) characteristics. The article presents results of comparative analysis of major scientific approaches to the content of professional burnout: result of occupational stress; psychological defence mechanism; type of professional deformation of a personality; professional crisis and clinical disorder. The authors’ Questionnaire was employed as the main method of the study. The level of teachers’ professional burnout was explored via “Burnout Syndrome” in professions of the system “man-man” method by Maslach & Jackson. The study was conducted from 01 to 31 May 2020 and involved 302 faculty members of higher education institutions of Cherkasy region (central Ukraine). The findings signal that more than a third of the surveyed teachers experience a high level of expression of all components of professional burnout. The paper reports that the length of teaching experience has a positive effect on reducing most components of professional burnout; the level of emotional exhaustion decreases with age; women have a lower degree of emotional exhaustion than men. It is revealed that the actual socio-demographic characteristics of teachers (age, gender) have a greater impact on such a component of professional burnout as emotional exhaustion, while organizational and professional characteristics have a greater effect on such components of professional burnout as depersonalization and reduction of personal achievements.

The purpose of the article is to present the problems of a typical rural school in a mountainous region in terms of the organization of the educational process, in particular distance learning of students in a coronary virus pandemic. The following research methods were used: analytic-synthetic, empirical and mathematical statistics. The specifics of the organization of schoolchildren’s education in the alpine conditions of a small rural school are substantiated. The results of an empirical study conducted among teachers of rural schools in the mountains of Ukraine are presented. The subject of the survey were questions about the attitude of teachers to distance learning in rural schools, the realities and difficulties of using information and communication technologies (ICT) in the educational process. It was found that among teachers of various levels of rural education (preschool, primary and secondary school) 49.12% have a positive attitude to distance learning, 18.42% – partially support. Given the difficulties and problems of using ICT, lack of teaching materials for online learning, low level of digital and media literacy, 23.68% of teachers – strongly against this form of organization of the educational process in remote rural (mountainous) regions. Prospects for the development of rural schools in mountainous areas in the context of digitalization of education are identified.

The article presents the issue and features of the innovative approach to the organization of the educational process in Ukrainian educational institutions in martial law. The following research methods were used: the analytical method, surveys, and qualitative and quantitative analysis of empirical data. The author’s understanding of innovative approaches, technology tools of teaching, innovative pedagogical activity, innovative culture, and teachers’ competence is characterized. Considerable attention is paid to the technologies of personality-oriented training and pedagogy of partnership. The experience of organizing distance learning for Ukrainian students in wartime, including the creation of special educational projects: online lessons, video lessons on YouTube and national television; International Ukrainian School (for temporarily displaced persons), All-Ukrainian Online School with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Emphasis is placed on the innovative potential of digital education to improve teaching/learning methods in various types of educational institutions, as well teachers’ different skills and ability to respond to societal challenges of technology, socio-economic and military-political situation in the country. The results of an empirical study covering 146 teachers and lecturers of educational institutions in Ukraine are presented. The effectiveness of digital education has been proved, as well as the necessity to improve organizational and methodological tools, forms of work of teachers and students to develop critical thinking, skills of dialogic learning, project work in a team, inquiry-based learning, etc. The necessity to use the latest digital tools to realize the creative potential of teachers in their professional activities is emphasized.

In the article the problem of teachers’ professional and pedagogical self-realization in establishments of postgraduate pedagogical education by means of information and communication technologies is highlighted. It is substantiated the actuality of creation and introduction the distance special course «The peculiarities of teacher’s professional and pedagogical self-realization in the system of postgraduate pedagogical education by means of information and communication technologies» in the educational process of postgraduate pedagogical education establishments. On the basis of analysis of research works, synthesis of educational ideas, generalization of own experience of pedagogical work the oriented plan of the special course is presented. The authors describe the information filling of the thematic modules of the distance special course. It is pointed out that the efficiency of introduction and usage of the distance special course in educational practice of postgraduate pedagogical education establishments depends on the level of teacher’s pedagogical education, as well as their information and communication competency. The attention is stressed on the combination of theoretical, practical tasks, and also tasks that have creative character. It is noted that distance special course contains not only theoretical and practical contents, but questions for self-study and comprehension, tasks for self-examination and self-control. Learning the distance special course the great attention is paid to teachers’ individual independent work. It is substantiated an idea that the efficiency of introduction of the distance special course will depend on teachers’ initial knowledge on computer literacy, access to the Internet and necessary hardware. The article is interdisciplinary, so it has been written on crossing the problems in different spheres: pedagogy, psychology, philosophy, informatics.