The article is devoted to the questions of realization psychological and pedagogical assistance by school teachers in professional and personal self-determination of seniors. The authors offer stage-by-stage realization of assistance tactics, describe its means.

The authors discuss the features of adaptation of senior preschool age children with severe speech defects to the conditions of the compensative groups in preschool of combined type. The authors give the directions, methods, form of psychological and pedagogical work on its optimization.

The conditions of clarity in the rhetorical discourse are analyzed in the article; parts of the rhetorical argumentation are found out; main methods of training in creation of persuasive speech are proposed too.

The article is devoted to the calculations automation problems and solution of the laborious calculating problems by using the MathCad software. The author offers to make the educational calculating programs, which help to use the combination of obsolete and modern versions of the Mathcad programs in order to improve and to prolong old hardware usage.

The question of the usage of informational and communicational technologies in the process of the Russian language training is considered in the article. The forms of work organization, methodological and didactic principles of the Russian language training are given.

The article is devoted to the problem of teenagers' manifestation of maladjustment, its types and the specific symptoms, depending on the time of occurrence. The author considers the signs of situational or temporary exclusion and gives the description of its appearance in children's recreation centers.

The archaic consciousness as the mythological conscience is heterogeneous. Therefore, in the article the author actualizes the problem of the division of the archaic consciousness into two types: primordial, natural type (called physiogenous) and artificial type (called sociogenous).

The author realizes the demarcation of the concepts of «postmodern» and «postmodernism»; analyses of references of post-modern concepts and phenomena of the contemporary social reality; fixes the signs of inclusion of Russia in the space of postmodern.

In our modern time research work is relevant and valuable as never. The research of the world helps the child to take a fresh look at nature. The understanding of the relationship between a man and nature creates ecological thinking of children in the right direction. The child feels the nature with the soul – he is a small environmental researcher interested in everything, delighted with beauty and distressed with injustice. The purpose of a teacher is to make cognitive activities of the children more interesting and practical. Helping to create the environmental projects for children, a teacher carries out his educational project – form the environmentally directed thinking of primary school children.

The article is devoted to psychological and pedagogical aspects of the technology development of the foundations of social activity of older preschool age children in pre-school educational institution. The authors also offer a list of possible projects, which can be used for the proposed technology work.

The article discusses the aspects devoted to the aesthetic potential revelation in mathematical education. The paper also reveals the possibility of applying aesthetic potential in students, who study mathematics, this, in turn, enables us to strengthen the motivation of students in the study of specific areas of mathematics. The author also gives the concrete examples.

In first gymnasia, which had appeared in Ancient Greece, gymnastics was the basic subject. Later the leading part of gymnastics has been lost. The paper is devoted to the question of teaching the gymnastics in Russian pre-revolutionary gymnasia and to changes of the role of this subject in an educational rate of Russian gymnasium during the evolution of this educational establishment.

The article presents the experience of management and conduction of the projects devoted to the career-guidance using the information and communication technologies and interdisciplinary connections within the framework of the program "Business education and entrepreneurship in secondary schools". The author concludes that to the greatest extent the project activity contributes to the formation of the creative personality of students, capable of self-reliant behavior and action, self-development, self-projection, to the free flow self-definition in profession and society. In turn, the usage of the Internet technology provides the great opportunity not only for students' diversification and socialization, but also for the rise of teachers' professional competence.

The author describes how to work with the methods of contradiction resolution. The complex of methods of contradiction resolution, suggested by G. S. Altshuller, is described in the article. The author also gives the system of exercises for contradiction resolution training.

The article observes the approaches to the content of the concept “quality of education” and to the opportunities of its improving by means of information and communication technologies.

The article is devoted to the questions of technological support of the development of the reflexive component of professional and creative self-development of future teachers.

The article deals with the forming of the pupils' willingness to the professional self-determination in modern conditions. The professional self-determination requires the usage of new approaches and technologies. The effectiveness of the professional self-determination is provided by well-timed and technologically correct pedagogical support.

The author analyzes the experience of students learning activities in technical universities by means of Web 2.0. technology

The author views the possible mechanisms of «image» formation on a linen cloth of the Shroud of Turin, widely discussed in scientific literature. The author shows how the «image» on the cloth was formed in a natural way and how much energy it required. Oil traces of the body imprint on the white cloth which contain particles of myrrh plant ointment and hydrophilic substances from aloe juice, which could fall on the cloth together with the oil from the liniment applied for the body when buried, under the influence of the energy of the southern solar rays, caused oxidation and dehydration of the cellulose fiber of the shroud cloth. This gave the appearance of the visible effects of the «image» formation on the cloth. The author appeals to the experimental data of linen cloth heating, on which a handprint (oiled with the liniment) was previously carried. The results of the heating of such cloth with the light energy of xenon lamp (which is an analogue of solar rays) have shown that the «image» of the palm consisting of vague yellowish spots without visible borders has come out. This image was caused by slight darkening of the cloth fibers surface.

The article describes the main processes of formation of creativity and self-expression by maens of professional computer technology as the special means of forming special graphic knowledge, abilities and skills.

The paper deals with the problem of interaction and synthesis of folk and professional, national and European classical art on the example of the piano music of Yakut composers. The questions of organic acculturation are solved at the level of vivid characteristics, genre, rhythmic and intonation, modal and other features.

The article deals with the problem of the teenage ethnic conflicts. The author describes the results of the research work about the level of ethnic tolerance among the teenagers of Tula. The author shares the experience of the implementation of the special course "Ethnic tolerance in intercultural interaction" in the process of psychology students training as a component of ethnic teenage conflicts prevention. Teenagers are the most sensitive to the formation of the reflexive attitude to "own" and "other" ethnic groups. The formation of ethnic tolerance promotes personal development, the development of ethno-cultural competence and experience of positive inter-ethnic contacts.

The article describes the psychological problems that arise in the process of adult learning. Presented results of the study describe the specifics of adult learning.

The main aspects of the realization of the competence-based approach in the educational process of higher education institution are presented in the article. It provides the usage of the modern educational technologies, aimed at the organization of productive activity of the bachelor during the development of the subject.