Keyword: «professional competences»

Nowadays university education is becoming more practically oriented. As a result, it seems to be of current interest to change the traditional form of oral examinations. The research is aimed at working out, theoretical analyzing and practical verifying of the effectiveness of the process of professional competence forming. The author reflects on the perspectives of final qualifying examination in Practical English taken in the form of a project that provides the future Foreign Language teachers with the opportunity of personal creative accomplishment. The experiment was conducted with fifth year university graduates Field of study "Pedagogical Education with two Profiles of Preparation", specialty "Social Studies and Foreign (English) Language". There are a variety of controlling and teaching functions of the examination. This form of the exam is stated to be more practice oriented and serves to give a more objective assessment to the level of formation of necessary cultural general, professional general and professional competences. Graduators are able to demonstrate everything they have learned and experience they have gained during their professional education. The research is based on competence, comprehensive and activity-oriented approaches. Evaluating the results of the research we were impartial and objective, assessment procedure is valid and accurate. In this article, the author demonstrates the practical value of project presentation as a form of examination to assess the level of formation of the necessary cultural, general professional and professional competences. Theoretical significance of the research is seen in the possibility of quality evaluation in practical teaching and teacher knowledge. Final exam in a form of a project allows us to test the level of the level of professional foreign language (English) proficiency, the level of professional competence and stimulates teaching interest.

The relevance of the research presented by the authors of the article is determined by the need to solve the problem of quality control concerning additional professional programs implemented in the field of pedagogical education (hereinafter – APP). The solution to this problem was undertaken in 2023 in the Perm Region within the framework of the regional segment of the Unified Federal Support System for Teaching Staff and management personnel. The aim of the research is to substantiate the evaluation of the delayed results of the teachers’ training course within the framework of external quality control of the implemented additional professional programs. When writing the article, an analytical review of the literature with the results of research by domestic and foreign scientists was conducted, which helped the authors clarify the concepts of «quality of APP» and «delayed result». To test the materials for evaluating the delayed result of the teachers’ training course on the topic «Implementation of the requirements of the updated Federal State Educational Standards in the work of a teacher», the authors used the method of questioning 237 course students with 2 blocks of tasks: «knowledge» and «application». Primary school teachers with different qualification categories, experience and place of work («rural area»; «small», «medium» and «big» city) participated in the diagnosis. The quality of the diagnostic tasks performed by the students of the courses was 71%. Based on the results obtained, a conclusion was made about the acceptable quality of the implemented APP and recommendations for correcting its content were formulated, for example: the inclusion of practical exercises on the design of educational tasks for the development of universal learning actions among students in the content of the program; practical work on the analysis and establishment of the type of educational tasks for the formation of functional literacy of a primary school student, followed by the development of such tasks on the basis of textbooks for primary schools. The theoretical significance of the research work lies in the analysis of the essence of the phenomenon of «delayed result» of teachers’ training course in the context of their professional competences evaluation in accordance with the requirements of the Professional Standard «Teacher» (General pedagogical function. Training (code A/01.6)). The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of applying the results of the research by specialists of the system of additional professional education (hereinafter referred to as APE) to develop monitoring of the quality of training in implemented APP with the inclusion of a procedure for evaluating the «delayed results» of students. The implementation of the results of this research can be used by the APE system in order to improve the APP and the forms in which they are implemented.