ORGANIZATION OF EARLY CAREER GUIDANCE FOR OLDER PRESCHOOL CHILDREN DURING PROJECT ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The article presents a theoretical justification and description of the approbation of pedagogical conditions for the use of project activities in the organization of early career guidance for older preschool children. The constant updating of the preschool education system, the introduction of the Federal State Educational Standard sets teachers tasks, the main of which are to educate preschoolers of the prerequisites of a competitive person, a successful personality, including realizing himself in professional activity. Currently, when there is a rapid change of the entire spectrum of professions, there is a need for theoretical justification and methodically competent support of teachers, parents in choosing the content, forms, methods of familiarizing preschool children with professions, determining the strategy of early career guidance for preschoolers. The article actualizes one of the modern approaches to the designated process — the creation of conditions for the formation of supra-professional skills during the organization of project activities with older preschool children. According to the researchers, mastering professional skills will allow a person to increase labor productivity in the future, be stress-resistant, effective and successful. These are time management skills, the ability to work in a team, system thinking, creative thinking, the development of volitional efforts, etc. The senior preschool age is recognized by researchers as the most sensitive period to work on early career guidance for children and the creation of conditions for prerequisites for the formation of supra-professional skills will contribute to competitiveness in the future in any professional environment. One of the effective ways to implement career guidance activities can be the widespread use of children’s project activities. Considering the project as a didactic means of activating cognitive and creative development and at the same time the formation of personal qualities of the child, the authors of the article substantiate the content of the projects and focus on the fact that the knowledge that the child acquires during the implementation of the project becomes his personal achievement, which means that it will allow him to be ready to choose a profession and self-determination.