BRIDGING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WITH CAREER GUIDANCE IN EFL ONLINE COURSE

Abstract

The topic of professional development with the teachers has been an integrative part of professional competence shaping, meaning the multifaceted and complex nature of this essence in forms, stages, stakeholders, methods, and many more. This article aims to highlight the shared insights about the online course on professional development, designed for secondary school teachers of English from Ukrainian places in the time of war as a career guidance course and spot the connections between online professional courses and willingness to promote the university to high school students for enrolling. The research was conducted grounding in the continuous flow of research about the teaching and learning process in the time of COVID-19 when the education system urged to switch to the online or blended mode, the period of trial and error in conforming to the demanding requirements for successful communication and in substituting the live communication. The authors claim to enlighten the perceptions of the participants of the course to reveal the ways of improving the course for further usage. The article shares the quantitative and qualitative data to reflect the degree of the teachers’ perspective.