Irek Faizrahmanova

Improving the education quality of future professional training bachelors can be achieved by constructing a unified education system, integrating the opportunities of all general and professional disciplines. The use of coaching in the educational process becomes significant and appropriate. The coaching method is used in sports, business, psychology, and economics as a way to improve results. The great potential of coaching allows expanding the range of its use in education, in particular, in the field of teaching the history of fine arts. Its application will help to increase students' motivation to learn, to increase their professional competences, to improve the effectiveness of the subject-subject relations of the teacher and student, to provide conditions for creativity in individual and collective work, to provide freedom of ways to perform learning tasks, to monitor student achievements. With this in mind, the purpose of the article is to propose methodology for using coaching in teaching history of fine arts and to prove its effectiveness. The authors highlighted the basic stages of coaching: goal setting; reality check; options for action and the will to act. The last stage involves the following activities: working out a route map of the lesson, making a presentation about artists, preparing an artist’s portfolio, filling out a student’s portfolio, playing a game, preparing an essay, working with official sources — museum sites, studying reproductions of paintings, analytic work. The effectiveness of using the coaching method is demonstrated by the results of an experiment conducted on the basis of the engineering-technological faculty of the Elabuga Institute of Kazan Federal University. The results were evaluated by the following criteria: 1) the average number of references to the artist by one student; 2) the maximum and minimum number of artists mentioned by one student; 3) the number of artists mentioned by students at least once; 4) the number of references to periods of fine arts history. The experimental group showed marked improvement of the results, which proves the effectiveness of using the coaching method in teaching history of fine arts. The theoretical significance of the study is due to the fact that it discusses the features of using the coaching method in teaching history of fine arts. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the obtained results will improve the quality of future professional training bachelors in the field of fine arts. The study showed that the coaching method has a rather large potential as a method of teaching history of fine arts.