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Gnilusha N.V., Gnilusha S.I. APPLICATION OFPROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN STUDENT PROFESSIONAL WORK OF ENVIRONMENTAL UNIVERSITIES

Gnilusha N. V., associate professor of botany and ecology, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical Institute «Kryvyi Rih National University»;

Gnilusha S. I., student of Faculty of informatics and computer science, National Technical University of Ukraine «Kyiv Polytechnic Institute».

Abstract

The article presents the main task of high school - the formation abilities of each student, education of the individual, ready for life in the competitive world of high tech. University education would contribute to the professional development of graduates. It is possible under the use of educational and information technologies in the new paradigm of education, having the attention and connection: student relationship - subject-information environment - the teacher.

One of such technologies is a method of projects. It based on the development of student’s ability to construct their knowledge independently, to model future professional activity.

The teaching technology is the basis of a method of the projects in which the development of the students’ critical thinking is situated, the ability of designing independently one’s knowledge is shown, to orient oneself in the informational space, to analyze getting information, to move out the hypothesis, to take decisions, also to form the skills of cognitive and creative activity. The educational process is allowed to individualize the given method.

The organization of the ecologist’s professional training in higher educational establishments it is a process of the practical realization in the close interrelation with the organizational and pedagogical events, it provides the formation of the students in ecological specialityof professional motivation, professional knowledge, authentic materials and professional competence which is according to the ecological activity in the environment and student’s preparation to the professional activity during the teaching in higher educational establishments. And it is exactly that the project activity as a form of students’ self-direct learning activity which is purposeful for the obtaining of a given result.

Keywords: method of projects;  professional activity;  university education;  vocational ecologists training.

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