Project as a method of teaching in higher education

Abstract

The article shows that the main goal of the project method is to provide students with the opportunity to acquire independently knowledge in the process of solving practical problems or problems requiring the integration of knowledge from various subject areas. The teacher in the project is assigned the role of a coordinator, expert, additional source of information At the same time it is underlined that this , practically new technology, is directed to purposeful, generally independent activity of students, carried out under the flexible guidance of a teacher, aimed at solving a communicative research or socially significant professional problem and to obtain a specific result in the form of a material and / or ideal product. Goal. The purpose of the article is to show the importance of using the method of project. The project method in teaching a foreign language in a non-language (technical) university is a didactic means of activating the cognitive activity of future engineers, a method of developing their creativity, which also contributes to the formation of certain personal qualities The main purpose of the project method is to provide students with the opportunity to independently acquire knowledge independently in the process of solving practical problems or problems that require the integration of knowledge from different subject areas. Methodology. Various forms of presentation of educational material within the project method stimulating the development of such qualities of creativity as: and originality of thought, development of ideas, active creative self-development, intellectual independence of students is revealed in the article. Results. The method of projects helps take into account the individual characteristics of students, and it significantly contributes to the development of skills and skills in teamwork, decision-making and presentation in business and professional situations.