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The relevance of the article is determined by the discrepancy between the educational needs of teachers of additional education and the proposed and existing technologies for their professional and personal development, which made it necessary to determine the modern content, effective forms, methods, conditions for self-development and self-organization of additional education specialists. The variety of methodological approaches to determining the content of a teacher's professional and personal development in conditions of modernizing the infrastructure of the additional education system also makes it difficult to determine the list of pedagogical competencies andconditions for their development. The professional and personal development of additional education teachers is considered as a system of processes that reveals the subjective potential of the individual associated with options for functions in the organization of additional education. As a result of the study of promising conceptual provisions and the analysis of scientific pedagogical literature in the format of studying the features of the process of professional and personal development of additional education teachers, the author clarified the content of the concept of “professional and personal development of additional education teachers”, in particular: this is a process of step-by-step solving cognitive, communicative, moral and ethical problems during self-education and reflection. Possibilities of professional and personal development of additional education teachers are considered. The article considers methodological approaches justifying the peculiarities of the process of professional and personal development of the additional education teacher. As a result of studying domestic psychological and pedagogical, scientific approaches to the “professional and personal development of additional education teachers” concept, the author identifies the essential characteristics of the phenomenon under consideration: focus on achieving the goal, possession of substantive knowledge, ways of selfdevelopment, self-diagnostics, self-esteem, information-communicative competence, reflection, knowledge of educational technologies of development and self-development of the person, creativity, social activity and responsibility. Two main areas of professional training are defined in the context of personnel management, personnel management of the educational organization: psychological and pedagogical direction, due to professional requirements for a teacher of additional education; social-subject direction providing the necessary level of mastery of knowledge, skills in profiles (directions) of additional education programs. Priority activities affecting the effectiveness of professional and personal development of additional education teachers are described; selfformation and reflection mechanisms are defined.

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The authors present modern methodological approaches to the problems of development of younger generation’s social activity. We demonstrate the results of general analysis of scientific research during the last decade, which are connected to tendencies of children movement’s development, process of its modernization, and implementation of the principle of children’s participation in solving the problems that affect their interests. The research shows the priority issues in the solutions of younger generation’s social activity problems – the study of education system’s attitude towards children movement, public values of students; value standards priorities of the younger generation, difficulties in the process of delivery of norms and social practice traditions, mechanisms of interaction between social institutions of education in order to achieve the aims of the National Strategy of Actions in the interests of Children.