Keyword: «competence approach»

The present article is devoted to the topical issues of training specialists in the sphere of state and municipal governing. It considers the high requirements to professional knowledge and skills necessary for effective work in this field, emphasising the importance of not only theoretical basis, but also the development of practical skills, which requires the introduction of new educational approaches. The shortcomings of the traditional education system, which is unable to sufficiently provide specialists to solve complex professional problems, are analysed. The article puts forward a transition to a competence-based approach, which encompasses the cultivation of students' profound knowledge, skills and personal qualities deemed integral for effective fulfilment of professional duties. It pays particular attention to the reflexive-activity approach, which ensures active student participation in the educational process and fosters the capacity for autonomous task setting and problem-solving in a professional context.

Modern foreign language education is aimed at training a specialist with a sufficiently high level of proficiency in a foreign language to solve professional tasks, which should be ensured by the use of various traditional and innovative methods and approaches in both classroom and extracurricular work. The teaching and educational opportunities of extracurricular activities considered in the article correspond to the main trends in education and determine its relevance. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of extracurricular work in teaching a foreign language at a military aviation University. The works of domestic and foreign scientists on the issue under study served as the methodological basis. The most significant approaches for the study were competence-based, professionally oriented and personal activity-oriented approaches, as well as the idea of the inseparable connection between the learning process and the process of educating the student's personality. The authors propose a scientific justification for organizational approaches to defining goals, choosing forms and methods of extracurricular activities that should stimulate the development of students' universal competences, including communication, intercultural interaction, self-organization and self-development, teamwork and leadership, project design and implementation, as well as contribute to the development of a creative personality and spiritual, moral qualities. Foreign language communicative competence is considered by the authors as one of the most important components of the professional competency among modern aviation specialists. As a result, the main forms of extracurricular work in a non-linguistic university are described, depending on the level of cadets’ language training. A theoretical contemplation of the extracurricular work importance in teaching a foreign language and the practical use of the research results will make it possible to build up communicative competence more effectively. The practical significance of the research was reflected in the development and testing of scenarios for conducting extracurricular activities in a foreign language, publication of joint articles based on completed research, the results of training and participation of cadets in foreign language Olympiads which were organized by the Department of Foreign Languages of the Krasnodar Higher Military Flight School.

In modern conditions of globalization, the active development of international relations and, of course, the increasing complexity of intercultural contacts, the formation of mediative competence in the process of language education is of particular importance. The need to acquire this competence is due to the requirements of professional communication, as well as to the challenges of intercultural interaction, which requires future specialists to be able to act as mediators between representatives of different linguistic and cultural systems. In this article, mediation skills are considered as an integrative component of professional training of specialists in the field of intercultural communication, including the mediation of meaning between participants in communication through linguistic means. The aim of the study is to theoretically substantiate and practically verify the model of mediation skills formation in the course of teaching foreign languages based on a competence-based approach. The scientific novelty of the research consists in clarifying the structure of mediation skills, which included such elements as reception, production, interaction and mediation, as well as in developing an integrated model reflecting the goals, content, methods and means of teaching aimed at developing these types of skills. Modern pedagogical technologies were tested in the course of the research, personality-oriented methods were implemented, and the conditions for the effective formation of mediation skills were considered. The results obtained confirm the effectiveness of the proposed model: positive changes in the level of students' communicative and mediation skills formation are noted, optimal methodological conditions for its application in the educational process are identified. The theoretical significance of the work consists in expanding scientific ideas about the content of mediation skills as an important component of professional training of specialists to work in a multicultural environment. The practical significance lies in the possibility of using the proposed methodological recommendations, techniques and technologies in the language education system, which contributes to improving the level of training of specialists in the field of intercultural communication and their successful integration into the professional community.

The article discusses the issue of professional training for preservice physicians, focusing on the content of studying physics and its role in developing professional competences. The relevance of the research topic is due, firstly, to the need of society and the state in medical workers, and secondly, to the complication of the work for modern doctors, the introduction of high-tech diagnostic and treatment tools, and the digitalization of preservice doctors’ practices. In this regard, the development of general and special competences among preservice physicians is of great importance, taking into account the changing needs of society and the state, as well as the increasing complexity of their operations at the current stage. The aim of the study is to analyze the role of the content of physics training in the development of professional competences among preservice physicians. The objectives of the study include: characterizing the process of studying physics by future doctors from the perspective of its content, formed in the study of knowledge and ideas; exploring the role of physics in shaping the professional competences of preservice physicians. The study used a structural and functional approaches that consider the process of professional training as a holistic process based on planning, selection of means of implementation taking into account the selected training goals, as well as a competency approach that reveals the conditions for the development of competences. The study considers the opinions of various authors on the content of physics as an academic subject and a means of developing general and special competences. The characteristics of physical understanding as a type of knowledge that shape the professional competency of medical practitioners are explored. The theoretical significance of this study is due to the fact that during the study, ideas about the formation of professional competencies of future doctors at the present stage, based on the study of physics, are summarized. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that in the course of the work, general conditions, methods, and means of developing the professional competency of preservice physicians based on the study of physics were analyzed. The novelty of this study is that it explores the unique aspects of how students develop their professional skills through the use of traditional methods employed in the educational process for the development of general competences.