Qualities Of Future Specialists Research Articles

Профессиональная подготовка будущих специалистов сферы государственного управления к деятельности в условиях инновационного государственного управления

The article is devoted to the study of professional training of future specialists in public administration to work in the conditions of innovative public administration. The purpose of the article is to determine the features of specialists in public administration in the framework of new management models. The analysis of such models as “new state (public) management” (New Public Management), “good Government” (Good Governance), project management, and “electronic government” (e-government) is presented and the problems of their implementation in public authorities determined by the professional competence of specialists are described. The indicators and conditions of effective professional activity of specialists in the field of public administration within the framework of the designated management models are highlighted. The article presents the abilities, skills, and competencies necessary for future specialists to carry out activities in innovative public administration. Attention is focused on the need of developing professionally important qualities of future specialists that contribute to the effectiveness of innovative professional activities. In this regard, the structure of professionally important qualities necessary for successful professional activity in innovative public administration is presented. As a solution to the problem of training modern specialists, it is proposed to create a pedagogical model for the formation of professional readiness of future specialists in the field of public administration.

Formation of professionally significant qualities of future specialists of music specialties

The article presents a general analysis of professionally significant qualities of future specialists of music specialties, specializations "piano", "orchestra string instruments (violin)".
 Materials and methods. The paper includes the analysis of professional scientific and methodological literature and sociological research methods, the method of expert evaluation and methods of mathematical statistics.
 Results of work. It is determined that the most significant professional physical quality for students majoring in "piano" is strength endurance (R = 1.42), less significant - hand motility (R = 2.17), coordination of movements of the shoulders and forearms (R = 2.67) and muscle strength of the shoulder girdle, arms (R = 4.00).
 For students majoring in "orchestra string instruments" (violin), physical qualities such as "strength of the muscles of the neck, shoulder girdle" are especially important. So, holding a musical instrument and playing it allows them to properly transfer a long load on the upper extremities and shoulder girdle.
 Conclusions. As a result of the research, the role and the place of professionally significant qualities of future specialists in music specialties, specializations "piano", "orchestra string instruments (violin)" necessary for further professional activity and the level of professionalism were analysed.

FEATURES OF THE USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PROSSES OF CONDUCTING PRACTICAL ON FOOD PROFILE SPECIAL COURSES

The relevance of the problem of scientific research is due to the need to improve the quality of training of future specialists for vocational education institutions. Also practicing teachers have a need to develop practical recommendations for the introduction of innovative technologies in the educational process. The effective use of innovative technologies can optimize the process of conducting an occupation, as well as increase students' interest in professional disciplines. The article reveals the features of the use of innovative technologies when conducting practical classes in special disciplines. The author also analyzes their advantages and disadvantages, substantiates the expediency of their use at various stages of practical work. Also the innovative technologies in conducting professional disciplines contribute to the formation of professional competence. They develop mental activity, help to acquire new knowledge and skills. Their practical application is an important condition for the modern European education. The purpose of the article is to study the features of the use of innovative technologies that will improve the quality of training of future specialists for vocational education institutions. Research methods applied: theoretical (analysis of educational and methodological literature, generalization, forecasting, modeling), empirical (observation, comparison), varieties of heuristic methods (brainstorm, project method, etc.). The practice examples of innovative technologies are based on the research results. They characterize the innovative methods and forms of the Nutrition Physiology discipline’s practical classes. That is why, use of various innovative methods and techniques by practicing teachers, in particular, business games, problematic industrial situations, modern computer technologies of test control, at different stages of practical classes in special disciplines will not only increase students’ interest in learning, but also improve the quality of future specialists' training.

Принципы проектирования электронного образовательного курса по иностранному языку для студентов-историков

The research objective includes identifying principles to compile an electronic educational resource satisfying requirements of modern higher education based on the use of information and communication technologies. The paper provides arguments in favour of e-learning, considers requirements for an electronic educational resource and describes advantages of electronic educational resources when teaching a foreign language. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that, taking into account didactic principles, the author proposes a model to develop an electronic educational resource on the professional German language for students-historians. The following conclusions are justified: the proposed electronic educational resource helps to increase efficiency and quality of future specialists’ training in terms of educational content systematization and educational process organization; allows efficient organization of students’ classroom and independent work, knowledge assessment procedure, provides methodological guidelines.

Development of Skills of Intercultural Communication in the Process of Studying at Higher Educational Institutions

The article proves that the need for the development of intercultural communication skills in the learning process is due to external causes of globalization and internal requirements of the modern ethnocultural situation in Ukraine, as well as the needs of pedagogical science, which takes into account global development trends: anthropocentrism, search for value orientations and new worldview, the need for acquisition of intercultural interaction skills that ensure competitiveness in the global community. According to the author, the skills of intercultural communication of future specialists are characterized by the integrity of formation of personal qualities and abilities, the ability to switch from one culture-specific code to another, taking into account their differences, flexibly vary communication strategies and tactics, maintain a positive attitude; choice of verbal and non-verbal means. In this regard, the author proposed the idea of using Web 2.0 in the formation of intercultural communication skills. Experimental application of a special method of working with educational Internet resources based on Web 2.0 technologies was tested in the Practical English academic course. It was found that the use of Web 2.0 in the development of intercultural communication skills in the process of studying at higher educational institutions opens up a wide range of opportunities for educational practice: the use of free electronic resources used for educational purposes; independent creation of network content; interpersonal interactions of the subjects of the educational process. To analyse the results obtained and objectively consider the dynamics of changes in the level of development of intercultural communication skills, control and measuring materials selected were the assignments of the Level 6 Certificate of General Language Proficiency (CAE Advanced) and a test to determine the level of development of learning strategies - the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) Version 7.0. It was found that the use of educational Internet resources based on Web 2.0 technologies activates the professionally significant qualities of future specialists, the ability to carry out intercultural communication, expands the horizons of the worldview and the sphere of professional activity to the maximum possible extent, professional mobility, which is a condition and basis of professionalism and mastery. The proposed methods, techniques and technologies can be used regardless of the foreign language and have transnational significance.

Content and structure of the future music teachers’ performing will in the context of choirmaster training

The article is devoted to the study of the essence of the phenomenon “performing will” as an important professional quality of future specialists in the field of art education. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the essence, content and component structure of the performing will generated by future Music teachers, in the context of choirmaster (choral) training in particular. These methods are used in the article: analysis, synthesis and generalization (in order to substantiate the key provisions of the study); the method of shifting from the abstract entities to the concrete ones (in order to study the essence of the complex concept "performing will of a Music teacher in the context of choral training"); the methods of modelling and systematisation (in order to study the structural components of the phenomenon under study). Based on the study, it was determined that the choirmaster training aimed at the future Music teachers involves mastering the competence in specific activities with pupils’ non-amateur and amateur choirs, as well as mastering the forms and methods of organising pupils’ group choral performance. The performing will of the future Music teacher in the context of choirmaster training is considered as individual basic personal and professional properties which provide mental and emotional influence of the conductor on the members of the choir to unite them on the basis of emotional and spiritual resonance. The will of the conductor-choirmaster acts as a mechanism of energy impact on each member of the team in order to achieve the necessary, highly artistic and convincing level of implementation of the performance conception as an intonation-auditory and emotional image of the musical work envisioned by the conductor. Based on the definition of the content-oriented and attributive characteristics of the performing executive will, the component structure of the studied phenomenon is substantiated, it consists of four interconnected components: motivational-incentive, intonation- and image-centred, manual-expressive and reflexive-corrective

Тезаурус как составляющая категории «языковая личность»

The work is devoted to the description of the term “thesaurus” as a constituent of the category “language personality”. We present a brief overview of scientific information on the formation of the meanings and status of these terms in modern linguistics. The idea is substantiated that in the practice of society’s life there is a desire among students to identify, clarify and understand a huge number of terms related to the modern realities of life (globalization, integration, informatization, westernization, etc.). We emphasize that modern terminological dictionaries, especially special dictionaries - thesauruses, are becoming particularly relevant in the field of specialists' professional training. We emphasize the need to improve the training quality of future specialists based on the formation and improvement of their thesaurus as one of the important language personality components.

Teaching english for professional purposes: methodological and organizational issues

The article gives a detailed analysis of the results of the questionnaires answered by teachers of EPP employed by a Russian university. The survey was done in order to reveal organizational and methodological problems that prevent from a considerable increase of the language competence quality of future specialists at the university. The questions reflected various aspects of the activity of EPP teachers. The first block included the questions that helped build up a social and professional profile of the teacher regarding age parameters, teacher’s experience in the field, academic degrees, university education. The second block of questions was aimed at revealing specificity in teaching EPP with taking into account students’ level of English, number of students, duration of learning English in the curriculum. The survey included the questions that made possible to define the most popular methodological techniques and approaches used, forms of teacher’s activity in the classroom. In order to improve the qualityof the English language education of non-linguistic students via up-dating methodological component, areas in which teachers need professional improvement were defined. A review of related works by Russian methodologists in the field was done at the preliminary stage of examining the problem. The summary of the results achieved concludes the article.

Monitoring of Students’ Quality in the Context of Economic Education

The article deals with the monitoring as the way of measuring students’ quality in learning the socio-humanities disciplines in the context of economic education. It is proved that it can become a way of measuring and evaluation of the efficiency of educational process, gathering practical information concerning improvement of the quality of learning. The monitoring helps to find defects and weak points in educational process. The theoretical fundamentals of the investigated problem give an opportunity to the authors to present their own interpretation of the monitoring of the quality of learning as permanent, systematic supervision, control and diagnostics of the quality of future specialists’ educational achievements. The analysis of pedagogical scientific studios gave an opportunity to define the following indexes of quality of learning: quality of educational process; a motivational sphere; creation of comfort educationally-emotional climate. The quality of educational process by means of the system of mutual visits of lessons of the social-humanities disciplines according to the detailed indicators of quality of learning has been analyzed. Special attention has been paid to the motivational sphere to the learning by the students of economic specialties as one of the main sphere that influences the quality of knowledge of future economic experts. The existence of emotionally favorable climate has been investigated at the lessons of the social-humanities disciplines. The author’s methodical recommendations for improvement defects according to the indicators of quality of learning have been offered. The research results show the urgent necessity to find the efficient ways of reorganization and updating the existing mechanism of evaluating the quality of learning the social-humanities disciplines by students of economic specialties. The efficiency of the received results is confirmed with the help of pedagogical experiment data.

Monitoring of Students’ Quality in the Context of Economic Education.

The article deals with the monitoring as the way of measuring students’ quality in learning the socio-humanities disciplines in the context of economic education. It is proved that it can become a way of measuring and evaluation of the efficiency of educational process, gathering practical information concerning improvement of the quality of learning. The monitoring helps to find defects and weak points in educational process. The theoretical fundamentals of the investigated problem give an opportunity to the authors to present their own interpretation of the monitoring of the quality of learning as permanent, systematic supervision, control and diagnostics of the quality of future specialists’ educational achievements. The analysis of pedagogical scientific studios gave an opportunity to define the following indexes of quality of learning: quality of educational process; a motivational sphere; creation of comfort educationally-emotional climate. The quality of educational process by means of the system of mutual visits of lessons of the social-humanities disciplines according to the detailed indicators of quality of learning has been analyzed. Special attention has been paid to the motivational sphere to the learning by the students of economic specialties as one of the main sphere that influences the quality of knowledge of future economic experts. The existence of emotionally favorable climate has been investigated at the lessons of the social-humanities disciplines. The author’s methodical recommendations for improvement defects according to the indicators of quality of learning have been offered. The research results show the urgent necessity to find the efficient ways of reorganization and updating the existing mechanism of evaluating the quality of learning the social-humanities disciplines by students of economic specialties. The efficiency of the received results is confirmed with the help of pedagogical experiment data.

Human Capital and its Demand in the Mining Industry

The article highlights the problem of the importance of human capital for mining enterprises. The author substantiates the increase of the importance of the health capital of an individual as a determining component of human capital. The results of professional studies in the field of mining are presented, which allow us to ascertain the high demand for such important professional qualities as neuropsychic stability, physical and mental health. The article provides a definition of the health capital, its direct relationship with the quality of vocational training and the level of formation of professionally important qualities of future specialists in the mining industry. The author analyzes the problems of improving the quality of vocational training and increasing the health capital in the context of educational and extracurricular activities related to physical training and the education of professionally important psychophysiological qualities. The results of the study confirm the need for physical culture and health and sports activities for increasing the capital of health and managing the psychoemotional state with the purpose of qualitative preparation for the performance of professional activities in conditions of increased extremity.

The Diagnostics of Professional Focus and Value-Oriented Sphere of Personality in the System of Higher Education

This article examines the importance of psychological and pedagogical research in the field of professional focus and value orientation sphere of personality in the higher education system, which can provide an opportunity to model the pedagogical activity in order to shape important professional qualities of future specialists

ОСОБЕННОСТИ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНО-ЛИЧНОСТНЫХ КАЧЕСТВ БУДУЩИХ СПЕЦИАЛИСТОВ В ТЕХНИЧЕСКОМ УНИВЕРСИТЕТЕ

Формирование профессионально-личностных качеств будущих специалистов является одной из основных задач профессионального образования. Институциональная трансформация общественных отношений является фундаментом инновационной профессиональной подготовки квалифицированных кадров народного хозяйства. Профессиональная подготовка и организация образовательной деятельности в современных социокультурных реалиях выступает как процесс становления профессионально-личностных качеств и формирования ценностно-смыслового отношения к социокультурному пространству. Рассмотрены формы работы, направленные на формирование профессионально-личностных качеств будущих инженеров на примере технического университета. Установлено, что актуализация становления профессионально-личностных качеств обеспечивается вовлечением субъектов образовательного процесса в активную познавательную деятельность, совместным решением социальных проблем, развитием субъектного потенциала будущих специалистов, освоением различных социальных ролей. Показаны возможности данного подхода для анализа особенностей и проблем становления профессионально-личностной позиции.

PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED PREPARATION OF FUTURE AVIATION PROFILE PROFESSIONALS: PROBABLE MODEL OF THE TRAINING PROCESS

The article deals with the peculiarities of professionally-oriented training of future specialists in the aviation profile, discloses the key principles of this training. The special attention of our research is devoted to the formation of the universal, skills, skills and personal qualities of future specialists of the aviation profile. The basic states characterizing all possible relations of the student to the acquired knowledge learning process are described; Probabilistic criterion for student preparation quality; Model of transition matrix of probabilities

Professional Training of Economists at Polish Universities

Abstract Polish experience in professional training of economists at university has been generalized. Structural, content and procedural peculiarities of the training have been defined. It has been proved that key factors for reforming economic education in Poland are globalization, internationalization, integration, technologization and informatization. It has been found out that forming of economic competency is based on the competency-based and personality-based approaches that allow to direct the educational process at a student as an active subject of learning, to create conditions for his/her creative potential development, to educate a competent specialist possessing all the competencies needed in professional activity. The influence of Polish universities’ integration into European system of student exchange on the quality of future specialists’ training has been revealed. Flexibility and variety of syllabi and curricula of economists’ professional training at Polish universities have been emphasized. Among perspective teaching methods we have singled out situational modeling as it allows to create situations at most approximated to those in professional activity, is oriented at co-creation and teamwork. It has been found out that the peculiarities of economists’ professional training at Polish universities are flexibility, diversification, standardization, personalization and adaptation to modern labour market. It has been proved that the result of economists’ professional training at Polish universities is a highly qualified specialist able to adapt to dramatic changes in economy and society.

Assessment Criteria of Future Managers' Preparation for Cross-Cultural Communication

The research is based on a set of scientific approaches, incorporating generative features of communicative and activity-oriented, dialogue, personality-oriented, culture-oriented, technological ones.The communication structure presented by the coherent aspects such as perceptive, communicating and interactive ones, along with the peculiarities of the process of cross-cultural communication (CCC) give grounds for defining the main components of the content of training future managers of foreign economic activity for CCC. They are motivating and orientating, conceptual and cognitive, communicating and activity-oriented. Within each component the basic criteria of evaluation of preparation of future managers of foreign economic activity for CCC are elaborated. Their availability is proved with the help of the definite indices.The conceptual and cognitive component is defined by the cognitive criterion according to which the efficiency and quality of mastered by students knowledge are assessed. The indices worked out within the cognitive criterion are knowledge quality (i.e. fullness and flexibility) and ways of acquiring new knowledge in CCC. On the base of the motivating and orientating component a subjective criterion is elaborated to evaluate the necessary professional and personal qualities of future specialists. It is represented by the indices of motivation for CCC preparation and reflexivity of communicating activity. Within the communicative and activity-oriented component an operational criterion is developed with the index of communicative skills and the index of skills to manage cross-cultural conflicts. On the base of the assessment criteria and indices the levels of future managers' preparation for CCC are differentiated into low, satisfactory, sufficient, high. The level characteristics are worked out and generalized in descriptions.

COMMUNICATIVE CULTURE OF FUTURE EXPERTS IN THE PROJECTION OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY

In the report its author substantiates the possibility of improving the quality of future specialists’ training at professional educational institutions by forming specialists’ communicative culture as a mechanism and condition of the specialist’s personal development.

Contribución de la física al desarrollo de habilidades investigativas en estudiantes de ingeniería

Para elevar la calidad de los futuros especialistas es imprescindible la investigación científica debido al elevado ritmo de desarrollo de la ciencia y la técnica que hace que los profesionales tengan que reaccionar de manera creadora ante los problemas de mayor actualidad e importancia. Desarrollar el pensamiento científico es una de las finalidades de la Educación Superior y es responsabilidad de todas las disciplinas que conforman una carrera. Entre las funciones principales de un profesor universitario está su capacidad para utilizar formativamente los resultados del trabajo de investigación. El trabajo científico investigativo debe ser una exigencia académica desde los primeros años de la carrera, como parte de la formación integral de los estudiantes. En el trabajo se muestran los resultados alcanzados por la disciplina Física en el desarrollo del trabajo científico estudiantil con los estudiantes de la carrera de Ingeniería Biomédica del Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, incrementándose considerablemente el número de estudiantes participando en la investigación científica y su motivación por ésta, la actividad de trabajo independiente y creadora y logrando la vinculación de los conocimientos con la práctica así como la integración con otras disciplinas de la carrera.

FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL-PEDAGOGICAL ORIENTATION OF STUDENTS OF PEDAGOGICAL SPECIALTIE

The article contains analysis of the problem of formation of professional-pedagogical orientation of students of pedagogical specialties. The study was conducted by examining the theoretical and practical literature in the field of pedagogy and psychology with reference to authoritative sources. The relevance of the article is that at the present stage of development of national education, the work of the universities and the society develops, social and economic relations to the new level. There are new requirements regarding the training of workers. One of the leading requirements is the strengthening of the role of professional and pedagogical orientation of training and development of professional qualities of future specialists. The authors of the article conducted research of the modern educational environment of universities, to determine the efficiency of formation of professional-pedagogical orientation of students of pedagogical specialties.