Natalya Korznikova

The urgency of developing effective methods of managing a modern institution of additional education for children is due to the economic and social changes taking place in the modern world. Technological and economic changes, modernization of the education system require the organization to introduce innovations and flexibly adapt its structures and methods of work to changing requirements and conditions. The search for new approaches to education management takes an important place in this process. The article emphasizes the relevance of the use of project management methods in the institution for its improvement and optimization of the work and development of the institution as a whole. The purpose of the article is to reveal some aspects of the work of the head in the organization of project activities for the effective solution of the main tasks of the institution development within the situational approach. The situational approach implies considering the situation as a sum of various situational variables in their interrelations. A specific feature of the situational approach we are considering is the use of flexible (adaptive) elements of the management structure. The management system of an educational institution is based on changing variables, factors of the external and internal environment and taking into account the principles of situational management: efficiency, flexibility, variability and optimality. The analysis of project activities practical use in the field of additional education has shown that the solution of project tasks in the institution is carried out taking into account the social and cultural context of the problems under consideration. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the fact that in the course of the study, the components of situational management were identified, the main aspects of the application of project management in an institution were determined, an analysis of project activities in an institution of additional education for children was made. The practical significance of the study is due to the fact that the theoretical provisions contained in it and the practical experience of implementing the ideas of project management in running of an institution of additional education can be used in the work of educational institutions of various types. The novelty of the study is in the identification of the relationship between project management and situational management in an institution of additional education, which has not been practically considered in the scientific literature.

The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that the main task of additional education at the moment is to provide students with knowledge and skills that will not become outdated in the foreseeable future, to form and develop such personal qualities that will make it easier for a person to adapt to social realities, will help a person to fulfil himself/herself in a complex, contradictory society in the most adequate ways in personal and social terms. Thus, at present, the issue of improving work to improve the quality of education, the effectiveness of teaching activities, and assessing the quality of the work of the teaching staff is especially serious in the additional education of children. Quality management in education acts as a strategic component in the system of activities of additional education institutions, ensuring the purposeful work of all subjects of the pedagogical process in terms of functioning and development, as well as creating flexible organizational structures and diverse educational and developmental programs. The purpose of the study considered in the article is to find a systemic approach to managing the quality of educational activities in a particular institution of additional education. The issue of the quality of educational activities is considered through the content, aspects of the development and implementation of the Development Program of the municipal educational institution of additional education - the Center for Creative Development "Oktyabrsky" (Izhevsk), the results of the of the program "Monitoring of educational activities quality" implementation are evaluated. The needs of children and the expectations of parents for the possibility and necessity of getting high-quality additional education put forward new requirements for the competences of a modern teacher, who has a direct influence on the quality of the educational process. Therefore, special attention is paid to the description of a mobile system for improving the professional competency of teachers, taking into account new trends in additional education. The results of the study prove the need for systematic work to form a mechanism for a unified system for collecting, processing and storing information about the condition of the educational process in each educational institution. The theoretical and practical significance of this study lies in the creation of flexible methods that allow an educational institution to choose a suitable system for assessing the quality of education.