Modern Aspect of the Competence Approach to Professional Training of Future Specialists

Abstract

Subject of the paper: professional training of future specialists in technical fields. Object of the paper: modern aspect of competencybased approach in professional training. Work objective: analysis of subject matter and contents of the modern aspect of competencybased approach in professional training of future technical specialists. Work methodology is to identify the practical application of competency-based, student-centered, metadisciplinary and reflexive approaches in personal enhancement of technical specialists in their preparatory process. Work results contain theoretic and methodological rationale of the need for the implementation of a set of modern approaches in the training process of highly qualified technical specialists. Essential approaches needed for forming the integrative set of students’ competences and for development of professional and personal qualities required in work activities have been identified and rationalized. The area of application of results is the process of training of specialists in technical fields for the successful performance of job functions. Conclusions: The issue of particular importance in training of competent, highly competitive specialists capable to fulfill professional tasks effectively and to lay out own self-development path is the use of modern approaches in the process of teaching the disciplines within technical studies curriculum. The implementation of specified approaches in the educational process promote enhancement of students’ educational and creative abilities, professionally significant personal qualities and value systems, critical thinking, readiness for rational planning, work activity management, fulfillment of certain types of activities corresponding to fields of study, development of competences referred to in the Federal State Educational and Professional Standards and the requirements of the employer.

The Readiness Of Future Specialists For Professional Activity Under Conditions Of Uncertainty

“…The practice of pedagogical activity shows that the formation of the readiness of graduates for professional work under conditions of uncertainty is carried out in the implementation of a set of modern approaches: competent, personalized, reflexive, meta-subject. Application of these approaches in the educational process contributes to the development of educational and creative abilities of students, professionally significant personal qualities and value orientations, critical thinking, readiness for rational planning, reflection, successful adaptation to uncertainty in the work activity, responsibility of decisionmaking (Chekanushkina et al, 2020); use of modern pedagogical technologies such as: brainstorming (a group search for innovative ideas to resolve contradictions); methods of "control questions" (finding ways to solve problems by means of inducing list of questions), morphological analysis and synthesis (search and selection of the most rational options for solving the problem situation); synthetics (generation of ideas by means of analogies and associations to solve the problem), allows to logically structure the algorithm, structure and to work out the optimal solution for the given problem in non-standard conditions (Mikhelkevich & Chekanushkina, 2019).…”