Methodological Support Improvement as Condition for Students' Competences Development

Abstract

Methodical support is an integral part of educational process. Under the conditions of reforming Russian educational system, its updating becomes an objective necessity. Teachers’ methodological activity as a whole acquires new features and needs improvement which is of particular interest to researchers, thus actualizing the need to consider this issue. In this article the authors reveal the essence of teachers’ methodological activities considering importance of this process both for teachers and for students. Since methodological activity in educational framework acquires new meaning, additional development in this area is required to form methodological support at a high level. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to improve methodological support to perfect students' competencies development. The authors proposed updated methodological support in the courses of general professional cycle. To test effectiveness of the proposed development the authors conducted a study. Improvement of methodological support in the framework of updated educational process contributed to improvement of students' competencies development. The obtained results confirmed effectiveness of updated methodological support in the courses of general professional cycle.