IMPLEMENTATION OF ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL MASTER CLASSES AIMED AT STUDENTS’ PROFESSIONAL DIRECTION DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article deals with the componential essence of students’ professional direction as the personality’s main constituent providing for its successful development in the course of the educative process and in the further professional self-realization. The description of interplay and cross-impact of professional direction components is presented. The main characteristics of a master class as a pedagogical technology are described in the article. The prospects of professional direction development with the help of academic and professional master classes are analyzed. The article describes the experiment performed among the first-year students whose major is “Linguistics. Interpretation and Translation Studies”. The results are indicative of rather high efficiency of practicing master class technology in the educational process of a university with the purpose of formation and development of students’ professional direction.