Keyword: «web application designer»

The relevance of the issues under study lies in the need to prepare school students for their future professional activities and to identify the best ways for them to make a professional decision. Pre-specialized training and specialized education, implemented in grades 9-11, have great opportunities for this. The article deals with such form of professional self-determination as the elective courses, which are aimed at the development of initial professional skills. The aim of this article is to create a system of tasks to help high school students develop their initial professional skills in preparation for a career as a web designer, and to test this system. Project-based assignments completed by students as part of each module of the elective course "Fundamentals of Web Application Design" served as the basis. Research methods: theoretical (study and analysis of the pedagogical literature and regulatory-legal framework; analysis, generalization and organization of the information); empirical (development and testing of educational materials, including project-based works; pedagogical experiment). In particular, generalized labor functions have been identified based on the professional standard for "Designer of Web and Multimedia Applications", which can be used when teaching information technology to 11th grade students. Based on the identified general labor functions, an elective course has been developed. Its goals and objectives are presented, as well as the minimum knowledge and skills required for successful completion. The content of the course is described, and tasks for various types of assessment are outlined: incoming, ongoing, momentous, and final assessments. The pedagogical experiment confirming efficiency of developed educational materials has been carried out. The theoretical significance of this research is to determine how, in the process of teaching computer science, school graduates can be prepared for the profession of a web designer. This will be done by considering the generalized labor functions outlined in the relevant professional standards. The practical significance lies in the development of a course with an emphasis on incoming and final control, which will help determine the level of understanding of the educational material. The significance of the tasks proposed was evident from the results of the project-based work presented by students at the end of the elective course. The novelty of the study illustrates, that the developed and implemented elective course complying with the professional standards allows developing initial professional skills, preparing high school students for the informed choice of a career.