Abstract:

In order to keep pace with current knowledge, teachers need to upgrade their skills regularly and learn throughout their entire lives. Teachers involved in further education and training have an undeniable advantage not only in the labour market, but within schools as well. Participation in formal in-service training, various forms of non-formal and informal education, or self-leaning, promotes teachers’ professional and personal development, which can significantly increase the quality and the efficiency of their educational work. Moreover, sufficient learning opportunities increase individuals’ life satisfaction as well as their satisfaction at work – i.e. in schools.

In the presented paper, the authors deal with the topical issues of e-tutoring in the context of in-service teachers’ learning activities with a focus on the benefits it brings for both teachers and schools as institutions.

For a theoretical elaboration of the topic, traditional desk research methods together with the methods of analysis, synthesis, description, comparison, generalisation, and idealisation were used. The authors conducted a questionnaire survey on the learning habits of adults involved in formal education. Based on the key findings relevant to the topic and the presented theoretical knowledge, e-tutoring as an innovative form of learning in the on-line environment appears to be a suitable and attractive form of learning for in-service teachers.

Keywords:

Teachers, further education, e-tutoring.