The Use of Project and Research Teaching Methods in the Implementation of Career Guidance Additional Educational Programs

The article discusses the process of promoting professional self-determination of schoolchildren using the methods of project and research training. The organization of career guidance work with schoolchildren at the university through the implementation of additional educational programs helps motivate talented and gifted youth to make a conscious choice of the trajectory of vocational education. Additional education is implemented primarily in order to meet the needs of schoolchildren in personal development and therefore is ineffective if it is carried out in accordance with traditional learning models. The authors substantiate the use of project and research methods of teaching during the implementation of additional educational programs for schoolchildren as a means of their development and self-development, formation of readiness for independent creative activity, awareness of the preferred sphere of future professional activity. The study of the effectiveness of the use of project and research training methods during the implementation of vocational guidance additional educational programs for schoolchildren was carried out on the basis of the Center for Technological Support of Education of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of Vocational Education of the Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. As a result of the study, it is shown that the organization of design and research activities of schoolchildren contributes to their gaining experience in real design and survey work (in its individual elements) and the formation of appropriate practical skills.