FORMATION OF FUNCTIONAL LITERACY OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The article considers the issues of teachers’ development and training and ways of increasing their and their students’ functional literacy that is seen as an indicator of mastering the competencies required in education. The authors explore methods of develop teachers and students’ ability to conduct joint search for solutions to current problems and meet modern challenges in real life situations, which determines practical and theoretical significance of the research. The article aims to study the development of functional literacy of school and university students, changes in teaching methods and ways of improving skills of a modern teacher in a comprehensive school and teaching staff at a pedagogical university.