Regarding the general education system’s intensive changes, great attention is paid to the modernization of school technological education. The emergence of the new technological design directions for schoolchildren have made it mandatory for the teachers to improve their methodological readiness. This article aims to determine the effectiveness of the formation of the technology teachers’ methodological readiness to develop the schoolchildren’s project activity using the internship platform resources. We used the following research methods: filling of the diagnostic card ‘Assessment of the teacher's readiness to participate in innovative activities’ (according to the methodology of V.A. Slastenin, L.S. Podymova); conducting the questionnaire ‘Assessment of the teacher's readiness for professional development (according to the methodology of V.I. Zvereva, N.V. Nemova); carrying out the test ‘Modern educational technologies’ (according to the methodology of O.A. Ivanova); using the method of evaluation of the teachers’ activity products. These methods made it possible to determine the level of motivational, cognitive, and activity criteria of the teachers’ readiness to organize schoolchildren' project activity. To implement the internship, we have developed: the program; the structural and content model of the teachers ' activity; the educational and didactic manual; the method for estimating the level of the universal educational actions’ formation at schoolchildren during design activity based on the concept of the universal educational actions’ development by A.G. Asmolov.

Fundamental government documents set the priority of the educational system in public policy, declaring the need for successful scientific and professional training and innovative educational activities of future specialists. The article is aimed to propose a solution to the formation of professional competence of future specialists of technical universities at the stage of modernization of education in modern Russian society. The work reveals the essence of the leading methodological approaches to solving the problem under study: competency, creative, personality-oriented, system-activity, technological, task-based approaches. A retrospective analysis made it possible to reveal the pedagogical conditions, simulating the real professional activity of students of a technical college. The ways of successful development of professional competence of future specialists are described (establishing innovative-creative environment; developing the subject position of a personality; strengthening practice-oriented activities; organizing reflection and self-reflection; using computing, information and telecommunication technologies, and systems; effective management of students' academic, scientific, and professional activities). Based on the leading principles, the methodological approaches, the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education for the preparation of future specialists in the Russian Federation, the article presents the innovative experience of the organization of educational process, which is aimed to form a professional competence among graduate students of Ryazan Institute of Moscow Polytechnic University, as well as Ryazan State Agrotechological University named after P.A. Kostychev. This study made it possible to develop and implement a block-modular structure and content of engineering and construction training of students, which includes design, organizational and managerial, information-applied, creative competencies corresponding to the types of professional activity.

The article deals with the topic of improving the ways of protecting the interests of employees, namely, the problem of selecting the leader based on the informal characteristics, including the psychological features rather than by the administrative instructions. Based on scientific literature the authors give their understanding of “mental load” and "emotional stability". Using experimental data, the authors prove the hypothesis about the leadership as a result of combination of three factors: firstly, the problem-solving by the group; secondly, the group’s composition; and finally, the leader’s personal qualities. The research is based on the theoretical and empirical scientific methods’ use. 208 employees took part in the survey devoted to the assessment of the Trade Union leader’s activity. In conclusion, the authors identified the main components of psychological load and emotional stability of a higher education employee with a socially active status. The researches came to the conclusion that the leader’s fundamental basis includes: personal qualities, tolerance, the resistance to the mental stress effects; the ability to create a favorable socio-psychological climate in the team and apply certain motivational and managerial methods; the leadership abilities; and the ability to communicate and solve conflict situations.