Imitation modeling as a factor of increasing competitiveness of students of secondary vocational education

Abstract

The training of highly qualified specialists for the railway industry is impossible without the application of a new strategy for the development of the educational process. It should include new forms and methods based on the advanced achievements of science and technology. Comprehensive work on introducing modern interactive simulators into the educational process becomes necessary and appropriate. They imitate the operation of real mechanisms, systems and equipment. Of particular relevance is the simulation of production processes. This is one of the effective methods that helps to acquire scientific knowledge, help to work out and simulate a training or production situation. As an example, we consider a model for the organization of the educational process for college students, based on the basis of system-activity and competency-based approaches. These approaches are aimed at the active use of imitation modeling in the educational process. Experience shows that such educational activities contribute to the better assimilation of academic knowledge through their systematization, algorithmization and elaboration at different levels, taking into account intersubject communications. Such work complements knowledge with good skills. It makes them more durable due to active practical training and immersion in the subject. Such work brings students closer to real working conditions, and therefore forms students’ qualities and competencies inherent in a competitive specialist in the railway industry.