Keyword: «project activities»

The article is devoted to problem of the organization of work on the school research project at the technical resource center. The method of organizing the interaction of a pupil, a teacher, technical experts and consultants in the course of work on the project is highlighted in this paper.

This article discusses the effectiveness of using the project method in environmental education of senior preschool age children. The purpose of this work is to identify the effectiveness of the development of ideas about the world of trees in senior preschoolers in the process of project activity. The leading methods for studying the problem are theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature and a pedagogical experiment. The authors present the ideas of senior preschoolers about the world of trees and characterize the project activity as a way of developing ideas about the world of trees among senior preschoolers. They also present the projects "Golden Autumn" and "Trees around the Kindergarten", and evaluate their effectiveness.

The article discusses the urgent problem of media students’ social and personal competences development within the framework of higher education, the role and place of project work in this process. The transformation of the media industry, the generational characteristics of modern students, the requirements for students' competences formulated in the FSES stimulate the search for the most effective methods for developing students' competence types, bringing to the fore not only professional, but also social and personal competences. The authors set the goal to determine the role and place of project activity in the formation of media students’ competences, to identify whether this type of educational activity can be an effective tool for the development of students' competences. Wide-ranging empirical material has been collected - expert interviews have been conducted with university professors working in media training areas (Lomonosov Moscow State University, HSE, Moscow State Pedagogical University, DSTU). In-depth interviews with students of these educational programs revealed their attitude to project work and drew attention to what personal and social competencies were developing in the process. The key attention in the article is paid to what specific competences, according to teachers’ and students' feelings, develop the work on projects. There are social competences among them such as flexible leadership, teamwork, delegation, sociability, empathy, joint creativity, and personal competences such as adaptability, responsibility, stress tolerance, control of emotions and relationships, openness and authenticity, self-development and introspection, self-organization, auto sympathy. In addition, the importance of project work as the most relevant today for the set of training methods for future media professionals is emphasized. The review of the scientific literature in the field of research, the author's definitions of the terms "social competence" and "personal competence" are of theoretical significance. An attempt is made to study and comprehend the role of project activities in media education not only as a way of acquiring knowledge, skills, but also as a combination of methods for the development of students' social and personal competences. In-depth interviews reveal the attitude of media students to project work, show the transformation of their personal and social competences, as well as the activation of self-cognition processes while working on educational projects. Perhaps for the first time an attempt has been made to comprehensively assess the advantages and disadvantages of project work in media education by the developers, teachers and managers of educational programs in the media field.

The dominance of the highly informative methods of teaching foreign languages at non-linguistic universities and the lack of use of technology of project activities in a foreign language, which enables to develop communicative skills of future specialists as the basis of their readiness for intercultural communication, determine the relevance of the research in the article. The aim of the research is the theoretical substantiation, development and testing of experimental models by means of communicative skills formation in students of non-linguistic universities during the implementation of project activities in a foreign language. The article was prepared on the basis of the following methods use: analysis, questionnaire, interview, observation, survey, pedagogical observation and generalization of personal teaching experience, experimental teaching in student groups, method of expert evaluations, ranking, analysis of students’ project work products, pedagogical experiment, and statistical methods. According to the results, the paper presents theoretical and practical justification of the need to develop the model of communicative skills formation among students of non-linguistic universities during implementation of project activities in a foreign language. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the fact that it defines the structure of communicative skills in the implementation of project activities in a foreign language; it identifies and justifies the directions of project activities in a foreign language for students of a non-linguistic university, contributing to the effective formation of their communicative skills during the implementation of project activities in a foreign language. The practical significance of the research results: a set of training tasks has been developed aimed at the formation of communicative skills among students of a non-linguistic university during the implementation of project activities in a foreign language; the content of projects for students of non-linguistic universities was worked out; a set of diagnostic materials was worked out to evaluate the results of project-oriented learning activities of students of a non-linguistic university while learning a foreign language.

This article discusses the problems of forming fourth-graders’ ideas about the history of Russia. The possibility of project activities using ICT to create a newspaper aimed at forming ideas about the history of Russia is identified and justified.