Keyword: «engineering classes»

The relevance of the study is determined by the contradiction between the growing demand of the Russian economy for engineering personnel and the constantly low interest of applicants in engineering education. One of the reasons for this situation is the insufficient readiness of teachers to effectively support the career guidance for schoolchildren in the context of the digital economy. This necessitates the modernization of practical professional training for student teachers of specialized engineering classes, which to a greater extent ensures the development of such readiness. The aim of the article is to summarize and present the experience of designing practical training for student teachers of engineering classes using blended learning technology. The work is based on systemic activity-oriented, competency-based, and student-centered approaches, which determine the focus on the formation of activity-oriented characteristics of preservice teachers and the design of their individual educational trajectories. The backward design concept was used as the methodological basis for designing practical training. The paper identifies and substantively details the stages of designing practical training using blended learning technology within the framework of a teaching practice module for students of pedagogical programs. A flexible combination of classroom and online components is demonstrated, which allows increasing the time students spend in real educational practice at school. Specific examples of learning tasks, a grading plan, and lesson structures are provided. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the adaptation of blended learning technology and the operationalization of the backward design concept in relation to the task of practical professional training of teachers for engineering classes. The practical value of the study is confirmed by the testing of the worked out teaching practice program at the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafiev. The developed methodological materials can be used in other pedagogical and classical universities to improve the practical training of student teachers focused on working in specialized engineering classes.