Marina Sklyarova

For intensification of the educational process is increasingly started to use the forms and means of training, aimed at active use in teaching new methods of cognition. Convincing case to use games as a stimulant for the development of speech and action, as a manifestation of the activity approach to training. The article describes the experience of the use of role games in the teaching discipline “Diagnostics of power plants”.

Training in a magistracy is an important step to becoming a professional researcher. Scientific-research work of students is carried out from positions of the competence-based approach, which is a concept of organization of educational process, in which the goal of learning is the acquisition of the totality of the necessary competences for the student as a future specialist. The article proves the competence approach in the organization of research work with students in the direction 110100 – Agrochemistry and soil science. Revealed conceptual approaches to implementation of requirements of the state educational standard of higher professional education on the implementation of research work with students. The analysis focuses on the theoretical aspects of the competence-based approach, commitment to its implementation on the part of teachers and students, evaluation Toolkit efficiency of the approach, including by regulatory authori-ties.