Introduction. Individual educational pathways are widely used in higher education to optimize the educational process and harmonize the personal needs of students. The problem of their further development consists in improving scientific and methodological support and meeting the requirements of documents regulating educational activities. The purpose of the article is to present the results of theoretical substantiation, development and implementation of a model for individual educational pathways in engineering education. Materials and Methods. As a research toolkit, a methodological system, including an integrated and interdisciplinary (combine all components of the model of individual educational trajectories into a system), systemic, substrate and structured (for designing new models of individual educational trajectories) approaches was used; hypothetical-deductive, analysis-synthesis, morphology and classification (to analyze all possible models of individual educational trajectories), modeling and design (to create various individual educational trajectories) methods were also utilized. Results. In the course of the study, the definition of an individual educational pathway was formulated. As a result of the joint work of the authors from Mordovia State University and the engineering universities of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, individual educational trajectories were developed for students of engineering specialisms at these universities. A generalized combinatorial model of possible individual educational pathways of engineering specialism has been developed. Discussion and Сonclusion. The results obtained contribute to the development of the curriculum design theory in the context of individual educational pathways. The materials of the article will be useful to researchers dealing with the problems of personalization of learning based on the use of individual educational trajectories.

Introduction. Innovative activity, as a creative productive activity, has always been and remains the basis for ensuring the progress of society and innovative training is one of the priorities of educational institutions. These aspects become especially relevant in relation to the professional training of future technology teachers, who will have to prepare the younger generation for the innovative activity at the initial stage of their training and form a stable opinion among them about the need to acquire knowledge and skills required for innovative activity. To solve these problems, most researchers create an educational environment (EE) of the appropriate model (developing, innovative, ecological, etc.). However, they do not address the issues of preparing technology teachers for innovation and do not fully utilise all available educational resources, including digital ones. In this regard, there is a problem of creating a new innovative pedagogical and technological educational environment (IPTEE).Aim. The current research aimed to identify and substantiate the possibility of effective preparation of future technology teachers for innovative activities when teaching in an innovative pedagogical and technological educational environment.Methodology and research methods. The research methodology is based on the following conceptual provisions: 1) innovative activity has arisen together with the formation of human society and has always determined its development; 2) one of the main tasks of each university is the innovative training of students; 3) the training of innovative activity is understood as the formation of students’ competence in innovative activity; 3) the training of innovative activity is most effectively carried out in conditions for the formation of an appropriate educational environment. To implement the aforementioned provisions, the updated authors’ methodological system of research on the problem of innovative training of university students was used. Such methodological system provides the implementation of mixed, project, “inverted” and other methods of teaching innovation in the basis of integrated, convergent, environmental and other approaches to learning.Results and scientific novelty. The main result of the research is the formation of a new didactic category – an innovative pedagogical and technological educational environment. The environment includes conceptually-targeted, infrastructural, content-based, psychological-didactic, methodological-technological and relaxation-diagnostic components, its features are the following: 1) focus on innovative training of technology teachers as directly related to the material objects of the innovative economy of the country; 2) universality in the form of the possibility of using it to solve other educational tasks; 3) graphical visualisation of the environment model with an indication of the hierarchy and interrelation of components, its scale, combinatoricity and functional sufficiency; 4) compliance of the environment with all the requirements of regulatory documents on educational activities at the university; 5) possibility of full-scale implementation of modern approaches to learning (innovative, personalised, environmental, project, etc.); 6) possibility of constant monitoring and control of the implementation of the environment within its relaxation and diagnostic component; 7) use of modern educational technologies, including digital; 8) possibility of obtaining specialised knowledge and studying other disciplines within the framework of using network learning; 9) innovativeness of the environment, determined by the novelty of the approach to teaching the teachers innovation technology and its effectiveness.To teach innovation activity in this environment, a model of a methodological system for the formation of competence in innovation activity among future technology teachers has been created, combining conceptually-targeted, meaningful, instrumental-activity and reflexive-evaluative components. The scientific novelty of the proposed approaches lies in the fact that without violating the structure and content of the curriculum, innovative training of students is guaranteed.Practical significance. The methodological system of research and the concept of innovation activity are concretised, its structure is developed, effective methods of training of future technology teachers for innovation activity are substantiated, and the methodology for teaching innovation activity in an innovative pedagogical and technological educational environment is developed.

Introduction. The level of mastery of innovative engineering has always determined the qualifications of engineering personnel, who ensure the technological progress of society and the modern technological structure of its economy. In this regard, the problem of increasing the efficiency of preparation for such activities is relevant. To solve it, an appropriate educational environment is created. This educational environment involves a teaching, developmental, upbringing, control-diagnostic and reflective means, which allows various pedagogical conditions, including innovative activities, to be simulated. The most effective of them are competitive environments, due to the increased motivation of their subjects for learning, formed when the natural quality of a person, i.e. competitiveness, is developed in them. However, these environments do not fully disclose the mechanism of formation of motivation and its structure. This raises the dilemma of creating a new competitive educational environment based on the use of competitiveness.The aim of the present research is to increase the efficiency of university students' training for innovative engineering activities due to high motivation to master it through the use of competitiveness.Methodology and research methods. In the current research, the authors were guided by the concept of multi-level and multi-stage preparation of university students for innovative engineering activities. For its implementation, a methodological system was used, including: 1) approaches to learning (integrated, interdisciplinary, systemic, substrate and structured), aimed at creating a competitive educational environment with its specific hierarchy, structure and substrates; 2) methods (competitions - to provide increased motivation; hypothetical-deductive method - to put forward a hypothesis; morphology - to analyse and choose methods; pedagogy of cooperation - to create a comfortable environment); 3) principles (competitiveness, unity of fundamental and professional orientation, interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, etc.).Results and scientific novelty. In the course of the research, a competitive educational environment was created as a system of interacting subjects and objects of educational activity, which has a multicomponent structure. During its developmental process, special attention was paid to the design of models of organisational forms of its implementation, common to which is the high personal motivation of the participants due to the presence of competition, competitive spirit and rivalry. One of them is the All-Russian Scientific Student Festival and related events, annually organised by the authors. The features of increased motivation formation to master innovative activities in these conditions among students, taking into account their psychological and behavioural characteristics, were considered as well. Its structure was revealed as a set of motives, which encourage the individual to be involved in a particular activity. The motives are determined not only by the ability to realise the student's personal quality of competitiveness, but also by other motives caused by emotions they experience at the stages of the competitive substrate of the festival (preparation - performance - analysis). This constitutes the scientific novelty of the research conducted by the authors.Practical significance. The methodological system of research is concretised. The methods have been created for organising and holding the festival, teaching innovative engineering activities in a competitive educational environment based on the involvement of students in all stages of innovative activities and increased motivation to master it. Methodological support for the functioning of the educational environment has been developed.