Keyword: «business simulator»

The change in the further progressive development of society is associated with ensuring the rates of economic growth, giving our economy an innovative character. The key to the success of the innovative activity of the society is the dynamic development of all sectors of the economy, including education and high-quality professional growth of qualified human resources. The Government of the Russian Federation, when developing a national project in the field of education, is instructed to proceed from the statement that it is necessary to achieve the following goals and targets by 2024. These are to ensure global competitiveness of Russian education, to provide for the Russian Federation a place among top 10 countries in the world in terms of general education quality. The main aspect is the upbringing of a harmoniously developed and socially responsible person on the basis of the spiritual and moral values of the peoples of the Russian Federation, historical and national cultural traditions. According to the strategy, the necessary condition for the trajectory of innovative development is the provision of an information environment for vocational education, which is the basis for dynamic economic growth and social development of society, a factor in the well-being of citizens and the security of the country. The reform of vocational education is carried out through the development of a new generation of state educational standards and appropriate teaching and methodological support, as well as the expansion of interaction between educational institutions and employers, the development of academic mobility programs for students, teachers, researchers, and administrative personnel. An important aspect of the problem under study is to provide in the process of vocational training active engagement of students in the project activity, by solving professional problems through project activities. These do not require a clear attachment to the type and structure of the lesson, the topic of the lesson, the subject itself. Project tasks have a creative component in professional work. Solving them, students are not limited to the scope of the usual learning task, they are free to invent, fantasize. The main goal of the project tasks is to involve the trainees in thinking about what is unknown, the formation of different ways of cooperation. The main condition is the ability to transfer known methods of actions (knowledge, skills) to a new practical situation for them, where the result would be an actually created product (text, chart, etc.). In addition, the article presents the technology of vocational training to improve the educational process of middle-level specialists training in the technical school and suggests a model aimed at the formation of cultural and professional competences based on the fulfillment of a number of pedagogical conditions. This, in turn, actualizes the consideration of the pedagogical conditions of education in the technical school. The set of pedagogical conditions is a set of related components aimed at achieving the main result - the development of professional knowledge, skills and abilities of trainees and raising the level of general scientific and professional culture. As a result of the study, we have identified scientifically based pedagogical and methodological recommendations for the use of a business simulator in vocational training in the educational environment of a technical school. Thus, there are contradictions between the ambition of teachers and masters of professional educational institutions to promote cognitive activity, to develop creative abilities of students in conditions of professional training and the lack of necessary didactic and methodological support in the educational environment. This explains the need of carrying out research aimed at identifying modern methods of teaching students to implement creative projects as one of the most important aspects of this problem. The article will be interesting for teachers, instructors of vocational training, post-graduate students, undergraduates, as well as for the managers at all levels of professional education.