Keyword: «project method»

The article considers the project method as an effective tool for the formation of professional competencies among students of the hotel and restaurant business. Its advantages (practice-oriented approach, development of soft skills) and limitations (time costs, complexity of assessment) are analyzed. Special attention is paid to interdisciplinary projects related to natural sciences and their application in the service sector. Examples of project topics and forms of protection are given, demonstrating the integration of theory and practice in the training of specialists.

the article discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of the organization of project activities for students with disabilities in the context of distance learning. The main groups of difficulties have been identified and organizational and pedagogical conditions have been identified to ensure the effectiveness of project work in an online environment. Special attention is paid to the transformation of the role of the teacher (tutor, facilitator) and the need to adapt the project stages to the individual characteristics of children with disabilities.

The article is devoted to the search for optimal means, methods, and conditions for forming students' readiness for physical and sports self-improvement. It reveals the possibilities of pedagogical design of processes of physical self-education, self-upbringing, and self-development, which are the basis for physical and sports self-improvement. We consider readiness for this type of activity as a state of the subject that ensures the productivity of voluntary physical and sports activities aimed at transforming one's physical and spiritual self. It has been determined that the main means of forming students' readiness for physical education and sports self-improvement is independent work, which is organized on the basis of students' mastery of the system of searching for and mastering physical education and sports knowledge, their ability to design the process of physical education self-improvement, acquire methodological and practical motor skills, develop psychophysical conditions, and enrich their subjective experience of independent physical education and sports activities. In the course of the study, it was established. that the use of the project method increases the effectiveness of the formation of students' readiness for physical education self-improvement, provided that the following pedagogical conditions are met: the organization of joint (teacher-student; student-student) project-research activities based on cooperation; the provision of students with the right to choose research project topics; the actualization of personal meanings and significant motives for physical education and sports activities; the integration of academic and extracurricular work on physical education for students; and the preparation of teachers for cooperation.