Tatyana Mamontova

The article is devoted to the current problem of finding effective methods for stimulating students' motivation to choose a future profession within the framework of career guidance work at school. The purpose of the study was to identify and systematize such techniques in accordance with the main directions of improving the professional self-determination of school students. In the course of the work, theoretical research methods were used: analysis of approaches to defining the basic concepts of the problem under consideration, analysis of foreign and domestic literature on the issue of career guidance for school students, generalization of our own experience in organizing pre-profile and specialized training for high school students to choose a future profession and systematization of the identified techniques. The analysis of the concept of “career guidance work at school” was of a systematic nature, since this phenomenon was studied precisely as a combination of directions for improving the professional self-determination of school students forming a system of modern career guidance work in an educational institution. The main result of the article was the systematization of the main methods of stimulating the motivation of high school students to choose a future profession within the framework of professional work at school. The stages of career guidance work included: a) the initial stage of pre-profile preparation (initial vocational guidance), b) the main stage of professional self-determination, c) the stage of specialized training (training in their major with subject-oriented and professional tests), d) the stage of psychological and pedagogical supporting professional self-determination of high school students. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the presentation of career guidance work at school as a specially organized process based on the use of techniques to stimulate students’ motivation to make a conscious and confident choice of a future profession. The results obtained by the authors of the article can be used as the basis for in-school systematic career guidance work with any categories of students.

The question considered in the article is about the organization of methodical training of the future teacher of mathematics within the competence approach to education. The author reveals the essence of the notion "professional and methodical competence" of a future teacher of mathematics, determines the professional competences and views one of the approaches to determine the level of competence acquirement.