Keyword: «project method»

The relevance and significance of the study are determined by the trends in the development of Russian education. This innovative education is aimed at formation of a person who is ready to changes in social environment due to development of his or her creative abilities, formation of motivation for continuous education, effective communication and collaboration abilities. Change of educational paradigms means refusal from traditional understanding of education as a way to get a ready-made knowledge. Education is a property of a person, a means of his or her development and self realization. All components of the educational paradigms require hence changes in educational approaches, methods and practices, as well as technologies and aids. These changes resulted in the recognition that the student-centered and systemic activity-oriented approaches are the leading ones in the Russian education system, which was documented in the State Educational Standard. The project activities became important on all stages of school education as a factor affecting the development of students' universal learning activities. The social project management is one of the project activities areas and it is designed to create conditions for a person to improve his/her social competences through social activities. In this connection there arises a question, what are the conditions for successful application of social project management methods in modern middle school. The aim of the research is to understand and to give a precise definition of the term 'social project management technologies' in the context of the world and Russian experience, so as review of organizational and pedagogical conditions and their successful implementation in the middle school educational process. The present research followed a complex approach, including research studies and scholarly works concerning the topic, as well as questionnaire method which made it possible to determine practical basis to apply organizational and pedagogical conditions at educational institutions. The present article reveals general elements of the social project management technologies and their stages, as well as a number of organizational and pedagogical conditions for their successful application, presents the analysis of teachers' questionnaires aimed to study real conditions in educational institutions. The theoretical relevance of the research is in characteristics of the social project management methods with reference both to project method and to leading educational tendencies in Russia. The practical relevance of the research allows us to use the obtained results for improvement of organizational and pedagogical conditions in educational institutions.

The article is devoted to a review of studies of the influence of mobile devices on human behavior, factors that determine such an influence, and possible consequences. We considered the concepts of «fabbing», as well as «fear of missing something important». We whowed the effectiveness of the application of the project method in foreign language lessons. We gave options for the effective use of mobile devices in foreign language lessons on the example of the project-based teaching method.

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the formation and development of cognitive interest in English lessons. The most effective forms of work, methods and technologies for the development of interest in the educational and cognitive process are using authentic materials and computer technologies, game method, role-playing, project method.

The relevance of the research is due to the need to develop modern educational technologies for teaching foreign languages at a technical university. There is an obvious objective necessity to update the content, methods and principles of foreign language teaching, their orientation to the development of socially and professionally important skills in a dynamically changing world. Such interpersonal, communicative and analytical skills are commonly called "soft skills" in modern scientific and pedagogical literature; in the context of this research, "soft skills" are interpreted and defined as "flexible skills". As a result of the work carried out, the purpose of the research was realized – to study and interpret the concepts, definitions, content of the term "soft skills" (flexible skills), to determine the methodological justification and the potentials of their integration into the structure of students' universal communicative foreign language competence in the process of implementing educational "flexible skills" (soft skills) development technology into foreign language teaching at a technical university. The structure and principles of educational technology are described, taking into account the psychological and didactic, organizational and methodological, evaluative and reflexive peculiarities of "flexible skills" (soft skills) development in the given article. The scientific and methodological potential of the issue under research in the framework of the discipline "Foreign language" in a technical university is determined. The theoretical significance of the article is related to the author's interpretation of the term "soft skills" (flexible skills) as a complex of supra-professional skills, they guarantee a comfortable interpersonal interaction, they are responsible for successful academic results, obviously increase life comfort, and ensure the effective students' career development. The leading research methods: the case method and the project method are used in a new combination. It has been scientifically proved that their joint use application as the case-project method provides a synergetic educational effect by involving students in research activities in the process of studying specific cases together with successful situation examples of implementing flexible skills (soft skills). At the same time, the foreign language communicative skills are improving during the project implementation. The practical significance of the research is provided by the results of the article, which are presented in various formats corresponding to the pedagogical, psychological and methodological goals of integrating the soft skills (flexible skills) development technology into the educational process of teaching foreign languages at a technical university.

The article discusses the main teaching methods that contribute to the formation of information retrieval and research skills in students of engineering specialties.