Vol 15, No 4 (2018)

The article deals with the intensifying of foreign language teaching to undergraduates of technical specialization. The reduction of guided hours of teaching foreign languages, triggered by the transition to new Federal Educational Standards, is revealed. The notion of the intensifying of foreign language teaching to undergraduates is analyzed. The correspondence between two-level competences, presented in Federal Educational Standards, and ones, developed by language pedagogy scholars, is defined. The notions of “standard guided hours”, “teaching efficiency quotient”, “recommended guided hours” are introduced. The components of model of intensifying of foreign language teaching are revealed. The results of an experiment are given.

The generation gap in education is appeared when people of the non-digital generation teach the representatives of the digital age. Modern education, based on practices developed in the written culture, continues to be based on reading, which remains the key, necessary skill for the time being. But the digital generation requires a change in educational traditions, disciplinary (normalizing) paradigms - basic skills, appropriate training technologies. In this article, higher education institutions act as a field of research. The authors identify several mechanisms of disciplinary power working in the educational environment and experiencing a significant transformation in the transition from traditional book culture to digital one. It is concluded that there is a need to redistribute the normalizing functions between the teacher and the student, change the type of activity of both subjects of educational activity; working out of new training formats are actualized.

In the modern world, public speaking skills are an important component of the education of future engineers and scientists. The lack of specific disciplines aimed at the formation of presentation skills means that most university graduates are unprepared to present at scientific conferences and professional meetings. Therefore, the discipline "Foreign Language", which includes the development of communicative speech skills, can be used for these purposes. This paper presents the experience of teaching presentation skills in English language classes to Master’s degree students majoring in engineering at the Department of Foreign Languages for Professional Communication at Kazan National Research Technological University. A large number of scientific and methodological works published on this topic make it possible to determine the stages and educational material for teaching presentation skills in a foreign language. The authors propose the technique for the gradual formation of skills in planning, designing and presenting the main parts of academic presentations in the English Language. The teaching materials and exercises presented here have been based on existing well-known practices and meet the international standards for presentation skills.

The modern characteristics of the labor market are its instability and uncertainty, so the constant development and self-development of a specialist, his professional growth is a necessity. One of the most important documents in the legal framework defining the sphere of education in the Russian Federation emphasizes the training and retraining of specialists for most sectors of economic and social development. The priority is the requests of modern youth for highly gualified and growing demands for educational services, focusing on the direction of training and retraining of scientific teaching staff because the training of specialists of various specialties and areas of professional activity degends on them. The young people today have the opportunity to choose an educational organization. The system of additional professional education was more popular, as it provides an opportunity for professional self-improvement, and getting a new specialty, carrying out the process of continuous professional self-determination, based on the "education throughout life". All this is an undeniable advantage of additional professional educationPermanenteducation helps to change the nature of interaction from the position of "Student- Teacher" to the position of "TEACHER of the FUTURE" such as digital, inspiring, knowledgeable, enthusiastic, guardian of wisdom - "STUDENT of the FUTURE" as self-managed. The article proposes a structural and functional model of education of the future, which provides everyone with the opportunity to choose an individual educational trajectory as an institutionalized support for learning and development throughout life.

Based on the data of the sociological survey “Status of the Profession of a Teacher” conducted in the territory of Kemerovo Region since 2010, the authors analyze dynamics of the ideas of the region’s teachers about the status of their profession and elements that make up this status, determine the interrelation between the perception of the professional status by the teachers and their professional satisfaction, correlate the teachers’ opinions about the status oftheir profession with ideas of the general public to identify the social status of teachers, forecast changes, assess staff risks, obtain ideas about how professional and territorial mobility will be developed. Objective information about the social status of teachers obtained as a result of the survey of the teachers’ professional status makes it possible to take well-grounded managerial decisions and receive timely feedback on the measures already implemented.

In this article the problem of creative potential of students of higher educational institution of culture as future specialists of the social and cultural sphere is actualized. In this regard, the clarification of the basic concepts of the problem. The authors analyze the methodological foundations of the formation of creative potential, as the modern world requires graduates of universities of culture readiness to creatively and productively solve emerging professional problems. The hypothesis of the study is that the use of such methods as creative project, role-playing games, training in the learning process can maximize the development of students' abilities and contribute to the formation of their creative potential. The organization of such training allows to diversify professional training of students. The main problem of this article is connected with the fact that, despite the existing methods of creative potential formation, the level of its formation remains extremely low; not all modern methods in teaching serve the needs of the student. The paper presents one of the possible solutions to this problem on the example of the methodology of classes on the developed course in the discipline "History of arts: history of cinema" with students of the University of culture of the direction of training 51.03.03 Socio-cultural activities. The features of the organization of classes, performance of practical tasks by students, a variety of used forms, methods and means of training, contributing to the formation of creative potential of students. The results of the work and the results obtained at the end of training in the discipline "Istria of arts: the History of cinema"are summed up. The authors identified the main approaches to the organization of classes (system, personality-oriented, competence-based, interdisciplinary). The paper emphasizes the importance of creating conditions for creative activity.

The paper reveals the theoretical and methodological basis of the activities of Sunday schools in the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church on the basis of religious and secular educational approaches. The author of the paper offers several models of educational activities and describes the activities of Sunday schools basing on the analysis of philosophical pedagogical literature: Sunday school supplementary education, supplementary Sunday training and pedagogical support for children, currently undergoing experimental testing at the parishes of Izhevsk diocese. It is the first time when the paper gives statistical and archival information about the number and the formation time of parish Sunday schools before the revolution of 1917 in the territory of Udmurtia that used to be a part of Vyatka Province, as well as the statistic information about their modern condition. On the basis of archival and statistical data, the paper gives an analysis of their activities, compares approaches, goals and objectives of the activity. The author explores the dynamic behavior of educational activities of Sunday schools, explains the content of the most advanced models of the educational activities, taking into account the development of modern educational technologies and describing the educational process in the spirit of Orthodox pedagogical culture.

One of the priority objectives of the reform of the modern education system is to improve the quality of education, which is understood as the level of training of students to Federal state standards and requirements in the field of education. The current Federal state educational standards are competence-oriented, that is, the result of the learning process is seen as a formed complex of General cultural, General professional and professional competencies. To determine the level of achievability of the tasks required effective mechanisms for assessing the degree of assimilation of students of the educational program - both external and internal. Systems of self-control and self-improvement become an integral part of the continuous process of work of any educational institution. In particular, the problem of increasing the effectiveness of the internal system of educational organization in the field of assessing the quality of teaching becomes particularly urgent.In this paper, based on the results of the study, a mathematical model for assessing the quality of students ' development of a set of competencies within a single discipline based on a comparison of the results of the current and intermediate certifications is proposed. This approach to assessing the work of the teacher is based on the idea of comparing the current and intermediate certifications, while the current certification is considered as an indicator of the level of preparedness of the student, and the result of the intermediate certification is considered as an indicator of the level of formation of competencies within the discipline. The considered method is based on the principle of interrelation of results of two types of certifications - intermediate and final, and for the purpose of increase of efficiency of work of this model and teaching in General it is possible to consider the offer on division of procedures of training and certification. The presented model of comparison of the results of the current and final work of students can be applied in the formation of effective mechanisms of internal evaluation of the quality of the educational program.