PROFFECIONAL COMMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT IN STUDENTS OF PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE PROCESS OF ORGANIZATION AND REALIZATION OF MENTORING PROJECT

Abstract

One of the current tendencies of higher pedagogical education is early professionalization of students’ academic activity, orientation of educational process organization to involvement of students with teaching professions into professional activity and in the process of school practice and through the project activity realization. All this helps reveal creative potential of future teachers; teach them to employ acquired knowledge, abilities and skills at the earliest stages of education. Mentoring programs implemented within the frameworks of interdepartmental cooperation is one of the promising outlooks of project activity. Analysis and summarizing of such mentoring project realization experience that the author views as a means of future teacher’s education individualization, their self-realization, motivation to their future professional activity are the objective of the article. The article studies the author’s model of mentoring the core of which is represented by analysis and synthesis methods of accumulated knowledge in the sphere of linguistics, psychology and linguodidactics, experiment and observation methods, communicative method of foreign languages teaching.