Tatyana I. Nikiforova

The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On National Goals and Strategic Objectives for the Development of the Russian Federation" sets out the task of ensuring the competitive ability of Russian education on a global scale and placing the Russian Federation among the 10 leading countries in the world in terms of the general education quality. In addition, it is required to increase its accessibility to citizens using the achievements of innovative economic development. The realities of today dictate the need to search for new technologies and ways to achieve the set goals. Modernization processes in any area of human life are aimed at improving the current situation by abandoning old stereotypes and transition to new forms of work. Modern geopolitical circumstances imply the need to update the modern education system towards its total digitalization. Digitalization of education should be considered as a tool for expanding the learning environment, choosing an individual educational trajectory, and building personal learning scenario. The purpose of this study was to examine the possibility of using forms of distributed education in career guidance work with schoolchildren within the framework of the project "Arctic Teacher in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)". It describes the experience of Yakutsk Pedagogical College in using digital educational resources as an opportunity to work with schoolchildren from hard-to-reach Arctic and Northern settlements of the Republic. It concerns the creation of pedagogical classes at colleges (Yakutsk, Namsky, Vilyuysky) to promote the development of the project "Arctic Teacher" and raise the prestige of the pedagogical profession among young people. The article also highlights the activities of the Small Pedagogical Academy for schoolchildren, where various events and competitions are organized. Intermediate results show that graduates of the Small Pedagogical Academy demonstrate professional determination, successfully go through the adaptation period of training in college, use educational platforms, display leadership characteristics.