The rapid development of technology has brought into our lives not only new opportunities, but also a constant updating of life and professional experience. The modern educational environment of adults is becoming a complex mobile system that must respond to the demand for new ways of learning as tools for the continuous development of professional competencies of a specialist. Meanwhile, each type of education has its own specifics and peculiarities, and is not always able to respond to a request. This article focuses on the relevance of the integration of types of education, which, on the one hand, respond to the requests of a specialist, on the other hand, contributes to the development of self-management skills by their own professional development. This article presents the results of a survey of Russian school principals убрать that allows us to identify the degree of influence of the integration of types of continuing education on the development of their professional competence. The results of the study indicate the interest of school leaders in formal, non-formal and informal education as a resource for professional development, and the forms of education that greatly stimulate the application of acquired knowledge in practice have been identified. But meanwhile, most of them use various types of continuing education intuitively, although they are ready to master the ways to integrate them provided by the available methodological tools.

Keywords: continuing education, integration, levels of integration, formal, non-formal, information education, professional development