Elena Kylikova

The article discusses some psychological aspects of labor safety; factors determining individual attitude to danger and affecting personal behavior; main types of human reactions in a dangerous situation. It is shown that it is possible to reduce the number of accidents caused by the human factor, if we take into account the peculiarities of the employee’s individual behavior, his formed opinion regarding safety, the level of his preparedness. The author gives an example of solving the urgent task for a transport company to maintain high working efficiency, physical and psychological health of employees, whose work implies regular psycho-emotional overload, by means of appropriate training within the framework of the company’s routine training, including the field of safety psychology.

The article considers the possibility of solving the problem of increasing the effectiveness of the use of the educational Internet resource by the teacher in the educational process at the stage of the resource modeling. The paper proves the need to take into account the requirements of the teacher’s professional standard, specificity of teaching activities, organization of training based on integrated use of information and communication technologies, pedagogical interaction with the use of counter efforts technology. The author considers basic requirements for the structure and content of the Internet resource, emphasizes the necessity to form in students the required level of competency and relevant competences, and suggests a conceptual model of the educational Internet resource for the professional education institution, which provides for the possibility of implementing different approaches to learning.

The article is devoted to the practical implementation of the basic laws and regularities of teacher’s educational activity in modern educational system using a competence-based approach. The work proves the necessity to meet the requirements of the professional standard “The teacher of professional training, professional education and additional professional education” and the importance of teachers’ basic theoretical training; describes the main laws and regularities of educational activities, didactic principles consistent with the core provisions of personality oriented approach concept in education and specific principles, reflecting the peculiarities of educational Internet-resources application; shows the necessity of developing students’ professional competences, and competences that simplify the process of self-realization in society; emphasizes the need for continuous professional training and development of the teacher for successful professional activity.

The article is devoted to the training of specialists able to take part in technological modernization of industry and innovative development of the economy. The author discusses the reasons for the change of requirements to the preparedness level of higher school teachers due to transition to a competence model of training and the emergence of the teacher’s professional standard of; reveals the essence and structure of teacher’s educational activity, the main aspects of teacher’s activities evaluation criteria; describes educational technologies that promote the development of creative abilities and research skills of students; proves the necessity of continuous improvement of teachers’ educational activities at technical universities in connection with the development of scientific and technological progress, constant updating of production technologies, introduction of professional standards, higher demands on professional competence of graduates by employers. The implementation of the competence approach to specialists training is shown, taking into account the situation in the railway industry, on the example of «Safety of technological processes and technical means of railway transport» discipline teaching at Ural State University of Railway Transport.