Methodological peculiarities of organizing work in the profession-oriented pedagogical class

Abstract

The subject of this research is the arrangement of educational process in in the profession-oriented pedagogical class. The goal lies in explication of methodological peculiarities of working with high school students for professional self-determination and formation of their readiness to study at the pedagogical university. Leaning on the principles of multidimensional and nonlinear arrangement of educational process, humanistic orientation, unity of collective and individual forms of organizing the activity, as well as focus on the development of socially successful personality, the author outlines the methodological peculiarities of arrangement of educational environment of high school students in the “School – University” system. The project paradigm is implemented from the perspective of personality-oriented and subject-activity approaches in the four main modules of variable part of the curriculum of the profession-oriented pedagogical class: 1) “In the world of pedagogical profession”; 2) “The learned person: practical psychology of cognition”; 3) “I find myself in pedagogical profession; 4) “Learn who you truly are”. Readiness of high school students for project activity implies the abilities to search for data and establish correlations, create a project, analyze the problem field of research, find alternative solutions, and assess the acquired results. Project and game methods meet the goals of professional self-determination of high school students. The article presents the experience of functioning of the profession-oriented pedagogical class as the joint project of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of Bashkir State Pedagogical University named after M. Akmulla and School No. 113 named after Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Ignatievich Rybalko (Ufa). Methodological recommendations on organizing the educational process in the profession-oriented pedagogical class can be applied in the senior middle school.