Development of foreign language competence of higher education students in the context of blended learning

The circumstances of active implementation of a blended learning format at all educational levels require increased motivation and advancement of the competences learned by students of higher education institutions.Such statement equally applies to foreign language competence, which is one of most relevant skills to the future professional activity of international relations specialists. In considering this, the Ukrainian higher education institutions conducted a study on the development of foreign language competence of higher education students in the context of blended learning. The purpose of the article is to develop and empirically establish the effectiveness of the author's model of foreign language competence development of higher education students in the context of blended learning. The study involved the development, implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of the author's model of foreign language competence development of higher education students in the context of blended learning. The participants of the study were students of higher education institutions: HEI 1, HEI 2, HEI 3, who majored in the following specialties: international activities, international relations and some technical specialities. The participants were 1st, 3rd and 5th year students.A total of 138 students were interviewed (68 from the experimental and 70 from the control group). The study confirmed that the implementation of the method of organizing the formation of foreign language competence of higher education students, which requires an optimal combination of blended learning with modern digital tools and the professional orientation of foreign language training in the system of higher education institutions, helps advance foreign language competence of higher education students.

Indigenous education in the Arctic regions of Russia: response to pandemics

The article actualizes the problems of organizing distance learning in the education system of indigenous peoples, including those leading a nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle with their parents, in the context of transformation lessons of the pandemic. The authors present the results of the 2020-2021 study of the situation with distant learning in the Arctic regions of Russia (case of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug). The information was taken from monitoring, questionairies and interviews with teachers, students and education management officers. The research aims to prove inequality but find measures to improve the situation. The authors draw up the prospects for transformation to digital educational environment in remote places and see if we could minimize inequality and social unjustice between children living in the central territories and in the most remote, isolated places of traditional residence of the indigenous small-numbered peoples, including those who lead a nomadic lifestyle with their parents.

The ımpact of the techno-organic education model on the mathematical success rates and attitudes of students

Techno-organic education is an education model that allows children to gain the knowledge, skills, and values that are necessary for life by establishing a correct balance of natural and technological understanding. This research was conducted to examine the impact of the Techno-Organic Education Model on students' academic achievements and attitudes for math. For this purpose, the explanatory sequential mixed design was used to conduct this study. The study group consisted of 38 primary school students. Mathematics Course Achievement Test, Mathematics Attitude Scale and semi-structured interview form used as data collection tools. This research included a 4-week application within the scope of the Techno-Organic Education Model program which is developed by the researchers. For the analysis of the quantitative data, independent samples t-test; dependent samples t-test; Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test, Mann Whitney U Test, and content analysis method were used. As a result; a statistically significant difference was revealed between pre-test and post-test scores for the success rate and attitude of the students in the experimental group, and there has also been a statistically significant difference between the post-test success and attitude scores of the experimental group and the control group. According to qualitative findings of the study; students think positively about the use of techno-organic education model in their courses, and they generally liked the applications and thought they weren’t too difficult, and that this particular model increased their interest in the course.

Practice of educational technologies application whitnin humanitarian disciplines training at Tyumen Industrial University

This article examines the use of modern educational technologies in the practice of the branch of the Tyumen Industrial University in the city of Surgut. The purpose of the study is to determine a number of educational technologies used in the TIU branch in Surgut. The methodology included generalization of reference and scientific literature, questionnaires, qualitative and quantitative analysis. The study included three stages. At the first stage, reference and scientific literature was summarized to determine the concept and main directions of modern education technologies. At the second stage, the experience of using modern teaching technologies in the practice of TIU branch in the city of Surgut is presented. At the third stage, a survey of students was conducted in order to identify the effectiveness of the introduction of modern educational technologies into the practice of the Tyumen Industrial University. The study was carried out on the basis of the branch of Tyumen Industrial University in the city of Surgut, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra. 70 respondents aged 18 to 22 took part in the study, of which 48 were males and 22 were females. The survey participants are various first, second and third year students. Before the survey, all students gave their verbal consent to the study, there were no people who refused to participate. After students assessed educational technologies at the university on a scale from 1 to 10, the following results were obtained: 5.7%. (4 people) of the respondents believe that all the conditions for the use of modern technologies already exist, 37.1% (26 people) rated it at 8-9 points, the majority of 52.9% (37 people) of the respondents gave a rating of 6- 7, 4.3% (3 people) gave a rating of 4-5, and none of the respondents rated the conditions for the use of modern teaching technologies at TIU as low 1-3. The number of respondents' answers in favor of each of the presented technologies was distributed as follows: 97.1% of respondents met with the design method, 84.3% with modular rating technology, 71.4% with interactive technology, 45.7% with gaming technology, 38 , 6% with the technology of problem learning, 35.7% with the technology of case learning, 20.0% with the technology of developing education. The authors came to the conclusion that among the promising technologies used in the university, it should be noted interactive (58.9%), problem-project (42.9%), modular-rating learning technologies (37.1%).

Digital literacy of teachers within Covid-19

The article is devoted to the study of the digital competence of teachers of Surgut branch of Tyumen Industrial University, as well as their opinion on the feasibility of introducing ICT into the structure of students' education. On the basis of the survey, the ways of the ICT used by teachers were identified, the main features of the ICT used in teaching process of different disciplines, the level of digitalization of the educational process were highlighted. The research was carried out on on the basis of Tyumen Industrial University. The data collection procedure included a questionnaire containing 13 questions, of which 11 were closed-ended, with suggested options, and 2 were open. Based on the data obtained, the difficulties encountered by teachers were identified, which prevent introducing modern technologies in the learning process. The article puts forward the idea of ​​changing the approach to training teachers for the process of ICT implementation. The following conclusion is made that the obtained data allow reforming the strategy of educational activity.

Features of the innovative and creative potential of future education specialists

The current state of economic and social development requires from a professional the ability not only to operate with a certain set of professional knowledge obtained in higher education, but also the formed creative opportunities, the ability to self-realization in further independent activity. Therefore, higher education institutions face an important problem of developing the creative potential of youth, which in turn involves the organization of the educational process taking into account the psychological patterns of development of the entire system of personal qualities in student age. Therefore, the problem of identifying the degree of formation of the creative and innovative potential of future managers and checking the effectiveness of the psychological and pedagogical conditions for their acquisition of professional competencies in this direction in the educational process is urgent. Taking this into account, the main purpose of the study is to find new ways to develop and stimulate the innovative and creative potential of future education managers. For this, the methods of theoretical analysis were used. As a result of the research, the basic principles of development and stimulation of the innovative and creative potential of future education managers were generalized and systematized.

The outsiders’ society: from prosperity gender pedagogies to post-feminist heterotopias

This article focuses on a possible permeability between feminist experience and evangelical Neo-Pentecostal experience. Through a focus group approach, we problematize the intersection between the pulsating gender pedagogy in prosperity theology and the lines of force of two feminist premises, which was resignified by a neoliberal rationality: gender equality and female empowerment. Therefore, we defend that the sayings of young evangelicals allow us to suggest the existence of a post-feminist heterotopia: spaces, certainly not full of neoliberal gender discourse ruptures, despite of that, still give rise to small cracks that from the very heart of normativity allow these evangelical young women to create other subjective possibilities for themselves.

The lapbook as an innovative way to organize learning activities in elementary schools

The article analyzes the views of scientists on the use of lapbooking in elementary schools. It is found that the methodology of lapbooking allows you to unlock the potential of each student in the process of creating individual or more often collective work. In particular, the lapbook forms key skills and abilities, which are required by the educational vector of the New Ukrainian School. In addition, it takes into account cross-curricular learning and social competencies, which help each individual to become successful and adapt in society. The article proves that the use of Lapbooks is reasonable not only when studying a single topic, but also as a complex, systemic type of work, as close to the project and research activities as possible. It was found out that the introduction of lapbooking at different stages of studying subjects is effective, as it covers different types of activity: pair and group work; search methods and work with information (ability to work with sources, generalize and systematize, draw conclusions, formulate own statements concisely and informatively). It is noted that the technique of lapbooking can be applied as early as preschool age with a gradual complication of high school. Consequently, the general essence of lapbooking is systematized with the help of integrative diagrams and charts. It is determined that the educational industry must be flexible to timely respond to changes in society and provide the professional market with specialists, successful and active citizens who are able not only to adapt, but also to realize themselves. The innovativeness of the lapbooking method is that it combines different areas of activity simultaneously: informational, research, design, communicative, creative, technological, aesthetic. The results of the study allow us to recommend lapbooking as the main method of work in elementary school (when studying any topic or academic subject).

Diagnostics of the readiness for self-improvement of the future teacher in the conditions of COVID-19

The society's need for competitive specialists capable of solving urgent issues requires focusing efforts on solving the most pressing problems in education in today's pandemic conditions. The psychological and pedagogical literature has repeatedly emphasized the need for self-improvement as a component of self-education of a person in general and a teacher in particular. One of the most important factors in the success of further professional activity is the formation of students' readiness for professional self-improvement. The issues of training future teachers remain topical, because both the intellectual, moral and spiritual development of children and youth, the socio-economic well-being of the country depend on their activities. Since the attention of specialists is focused on the personal potential of a person, the urgent is the problem of the formation of future teachers' readiness for self-improvement in the process of individualization of professional training pedagogical science. For this, the methods of theoretical research of profile sources were used, and also theoretical and ascertaining experiments were carried out. It is proved that the training of a future teacher should be focused on the personality, the recognition of a person as the highest value in society, and providing conditions for personal self-improvement of the future teacher is one of the priority areas in the educational process of the university

Pedagogical aspects of the formation of professional competence among students of physical culture and sports

The main purporse is to determine the main aspects of professional competence among students of physical culture and sports. The pedagogical practice of future physical culture teachers is an integrating and core component of the personal and professional formation of a future specialist, which provides for the formation of his professional competence through mastering various types of activity, leads to professional self-improvement, student self-knowledge in various professional roles in the real conditions of a general education school. Among the main tasks facing the system of higher pedagogical education, an important place is occupied by the task of training a competence-based specialist of a wide profile, further strengthening of fundamental education and bringing it closer to research and practical professional activity, therefore, the goal of training should provide for an optimal combination of theoretical knowledge and creative abilities of future teachers, which would allow them, after graduating from an educational institution, to independently raise the level of their education and professional training, to find fundamentally new solutions to the problems of science and practice. The study was carried out using the following theoretical methods: systems analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparison, classification, generalization and systematization, idealization and abstraction. As a result of the study, the main aspects of professional competence among students of physical culture and sports were determined