Abstract: This work is dedicated to the search for new mechanisms for the formation and development of leadership qualities of an individual in the area of management. The authors conduct a theoretical analysis of the key leadership qualities from the perspective of various schools, as well as describe approaches towards their formation (leadership is just a manifestation of the inherited talent; leader can be brought up through the corresponding training or creation of certain situations). Sociocultural peculiarities of the phenomenon of leadership in Russia are being discussed. The work introduces the commercial and authorial instruments on the basis of modern information and communication technologies that allow forming and development the leadership qualities. The authors consider the merits and flaws in using the Russian commercial software iSpring Suite, the proprietary information system for creating the virtual social educational environment with the preset characteristics and authorial specialized social network. The created virtual social environments are easily scalable and invariant with regards to the content, which discovers the new opportunities in terms of fast adjustment of the proposed content to the sociocultural features of a particular person, as well as the creation of individual educational trajectories.

Abstract: The article deals with the results obtained in the monitoring of teaching staff in the Moscow region for compliance with modern requirements for subject teacher in terms of new educational and professional standards. The goal of this work is to identify the professional difficulties and methodological problems for teachers in such areas as general pedagogical, scientific-theoretical, methodological, information and communication. The main tasks of the research is to assess the teachers' knowledge of new methods and techniques of training, teachers ability to organize research, independent work of students, teachers knowledge of the achievements of modern science and practice. The studies are conducted among the teaching staff in the form of Web-questionnaires, computer-based testing, interviewing, collection of indirect data. The results of the studies define the needs of teachers. Solutions to identified problems and difficulties for the training, retraining and advanced training of teachers are supposed. Trained teachers, who are able to combine traditional teaching methods and modern information technologies, are necessary to implement new features. Teachers must be able to create their own educational resources, widely use them in their teaching activities.