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Our living in the dramatically globalizing world makes us admit that individuals need new abilities to survive and succeed in the societies with a high level of interdependence and integration. As a response to these current challenges global competence appears to play a very important role in bringing up a globally competent person who can work and communicate effectively with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds which is especially urgent for Russia as it is actively participating in solving...

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) presents challenges that affect everyday life and learning for pupils as well as their teachers and parents. Much has been written and researched when it comes to the disorder, with some conclusions resulting in great debate and controversy. Experts on ADHD offer a number of suggestions to help pupils with reading and writing. Paper presents some ways to provide pupils with secondary “fidget” activities, ones that don’t distract pupils from the task at hand but actua...

The represented article is devoted to the investigation of conditions for the developing of the pedagogical experience of newcomers to the university teachers in the process of intercultural interaction and improvement of the training of newcomers to the university teachers for intercultural interaction. The analysis of the scientific literature declares that named issue has not yet obtained the sufficient theoretical substantiation in pedagogical literature and viable practical fulfilment. As a result, the proble...

The article suggests solutions to the problems that may arise in the practical implementation of a new approach to the distribution of state-funded places among the universities, subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the competition among the applicants. These problems include the excess of educational organization material resources with a sharp increase in the number of applicants recommended for enrollment; the mechanisms for taking into account additional creative ...

This article looks into natural science problems. Although a lot is being done in the country in the improvement of natural science education in schools, however, as international research data show, students’ natural science competence is insufficient. The present day student as well as schoolchildren is a technology generation person. His attitude to natural sciences, motivation to develop natural science competence is similar to schoolchildren’s. In this article it is discussed, how pre-service primary school t...

The article is devoted to the problem of student’s cultural self-determination by means of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language. A person’s cultural self-determination is the formation of the student as a subject and an object of the public relations, the establishment of the stable relations with the world around us caused by the valuable and semantic contents. The development of the students’ cultural self-determination in the course of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language represent...

The paper deals with analyses of sports activities in pubescent (12 – 15 years old) pupils in the Czech Republic and some EU countries. The aim of the study is to analyse, to verify and to identify the status quo of children’s interest in locomotive activities at basic schools and their attitude to these activities including determinants that shape the attitude. The study is done with help of kinatropological research. We chose a method based on questionnaire survey and following analyses and syntheses of gained d...

The authors analyse the current situation related to methodological and practical aspects of preparation of pedagogical profile bachelors specialising in education for children with disabilities. Integration of inclusive education at schools and universities of the country. Based on the experience of various universities, systemised and created special educational programs of additional education. An important condition of training is the professional self-determination. Methods: the authors of this article to exp...

Future social and health workers will be implemented in a complex, multifaceted, difficult activity that needs professionals prepared to work flexibly and effectively with people who have social and health problems. ?hey are responsible for performing different social roles: provider of information /related to documents on social policy and practice/ generator of new ideas / in connection with problem solving/, partner in the process of communication, organizer, assistant in the performance of various practical ta...

Improving the quality of the teacher's professional competences is currently the subject of professional discussion in Slovak education. The intention is to improve and expand the theoretical and practical teacher training. Examination and reflecting on the issue of evaluation of the work of pupils in the process of education is considered to be an important aspect of undergraduate study. Effective and objective evaluation of the process and the results of education are among the basic pedagogical competencies. Th...

Background: Professional self-determination in the educational system of modern Russia have no common policy in the sphere of it organization. UrFU is working with the secondary school students by the different technologies of professional self-determination. The University organizes the activities of schools and programs in various areas of training, such as "Test drive", "Pro debut, testing centers," Academy of power". Methods: The purpose of the article is empirical research’s results of three years of experien...

The State Forests National Forest Holding (PGL LP), which manages the forest resources of the State Treasury, has a great impact and largely contributes to building ecological awareness of the society through taken activities in terms of forest education and the development of educational and natural infrastructure. These activities are an element of sustainable forest management. The objective of the article is to present the forest education system in Poland. For the purposes of this study, fundamental documents...

The article is about written exercises which are necessary to use at the Russian lessons for foreign students. Students should watch and write written exercises at the same level as oral exercises during developing Russian pronunciation skills. Urgency of the research of this theme is in its importance. Intonation and phonetics lessons take a special place in teaching Russian language for foreigners because correct pronunciation of the words is the most important for communication in Russian language and the devel...

There has been an increasing interest in studying associations among physical fitness, motor coordination and physical parameters in early childhood over the past decades. Available research data on the relationship between childhood obesity and motor competence at early ages remains rather inconclusive. The aim of the study was to analyze the association between physical fitness, motor competence indicators and somatic parameters in primary school-aged children. Data were collected from 213 prepubertal children. ...

One of the main types of tourism is recreational tourism, aimed at providing the rest necessary for the restoration of the physical and mental strength of human beings. In addition, ecological tourism has recently become very popular, due to travel to places with relatively untouched nature, which does not violate the integrity of ecosystems and creates favorable economic conditions for the protection of natural resources by the local population. A special kind of tourist activity, combining the tasks of both the ...

Requirements for specialists in the tourism market in the modern world determine the training of students specializing in tourism, which has a recreational and environmental focus. This is due to the changed conditions of their professional activities, which should take into account not only the needs of society for recovery and recreation, but also existing environmental problems. In the presented work practical implementation of the model of recreational-ecological training of students of the specialty Tourism i...

Within the project VEGA 1/0223/16 Classroom Management at Primary Schools, the research team, in the first stage, was studying teachers’ opinions on unwanted pupil behaviour. Following the partial project results, the second stage of the project was focused on the selection of an optimal model of classroom management. Looking for, finding and using the suitable programmes of preventive and intervention measures can help many teachers to manage the classroom more effectively and thus improve the classroom climate. ...

The present paper presents new approaches in orthopaedic and rehabilitation training within the framework of COR-skills project. COR-skills is an ERASMUS+ funded project that started in december 2015 and will finish in december 2017, based on collaboration between hospitals and Higher Education Institutes from different European countries. The project aimes to develop, test and adapt a continous vocational educational medical programme, developed on an exhaustive needs analysis and focusing on a “real-life” transn...

The approach is considered, which allows the decision maker to determine not only the need for the announcement of admission to a current master educational program, but also the number of students enrolled in master educational programs. For decision-making on the announcement of foster campaign authors offer to use a majority block on the basis of the recommendations obtained by the classical methods of cluster analysis, Kohonen neural network (which make it possible to divide educational programs into clusters,...

The actual task of modern economic education is to bring the content of curricula in accordance with the new achievements of economic science. This article discusses the results of a critical review of economic theory and practice, which is based on the experience of research into the latest global economic recession, and their implications for the study and teaching of the economy. A critical analysis of the basic concepts of economic science revealed an insufficient understanding of the process of economic chang...

Binding the outgrowing of educational content, often observed just as a group of rules throughout history, with ethical ideas of good and philanthropy that have the power to change the image of the world, this paper aims to demonstrate the factors and social conditions in which processes that have contributed to the science of nurturing, namely pedagogy, take place, as an independent and autonomous scientific discipline in today's Croatian territory. Over the course of history, the pedagogy systematized from the p...

Cooperation between schools and parents is a broad and extremely important part of school life. It is not only the involvement of parents in school life through the School Board or the participation of parents in regular information meetings with teachers in classrooms. The effort of the school is to impress parents directly in school, to share common joys, to solve common problems in education as well as to educate their children and cooperate within the interests of children. These processes facilitate a persona...

In this Study we aimed to reveal the frequently underestimated role that bodyweight exercises may play in building Physical Fitness. Our own bodies offer us all the equipment we need to get in shape. Old-school, forgotten and disregarded Calisthenics, or more fashionable Pilates or Stretching exercises may offer us plenty of alternative tools to replace the machine’s assisted “modern” Fitness programs. Method: The study was conducted on 40 female Students of "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucha...

This report describes a document management system in the university related to the learning process. As an example of the application and shows a faculty. The design of the system has developed using three-tier architecture, which allows the separation of key components for efficient reuse of code and allow options for parallel development. The development of system allowing professors and students involved in the development increase their knowledge and acquire practical skills in the design, development and imp...

The article deals with the topical problem - the innovative activity of a modern teacher, a teacher of a foreign language. The introduction of pedagogical innovations means the use and application in practice of new methods and technologies, tools, changing and adapting the known methodology in the new conditions of integrity, openness and pragmatism of education. The Concept for the Development of Russian Education from 2016 to 2020 states a competence approach as the bestto comply with the requirements of the Fe...

The article deals with the process of improving competences and work performance through the provision of a wide range of opportunities for personal and professional growth in knowledge and skills. The purpose was to integrate learning maintenance of the individual learning plan with daily activities. The article brings forward the mechanism for a strategic planning of educational steps, based on the analysis of searching ways. Strategic planning is based on a code of regulation and procedures containing a series ...

The aim of the article is to describe the direction of change in the internationalization of higher education institutions. It seems that although medieval universities remained organizations with a high level of internationalization, the transformation to the Humboldt Model has shifted the main burden of activity to the level of nation states. It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that the trend towards internationalization of higher education and higher education was developed on a global sca...

The article deals with the potential of original feature films and television series to develop lingvopragmatic competence of foreign students of economic specialties in the field of business communication in conditions of a) real language environment of the Russian university (traditional learning), b) combined real and virtual language environments (blended learning). The named audiovisual sources, which usually performed the function of illustrative material in teaching Russian as a foreign language, are propos...

Background: For the modern Russian society is characterized as a violation of institutional links between higher education, business, and academic science. This is due to a number of reasons. First of all, the tradition of managing these areas under a centralized state regulation and radical reform of higher education, which is associated with deep restructuring of the entire it system. The One of the priority ways of development of higher education is the expansion of its network of relationships with stakeholder...

Within the framework of andragogical approach, the authors focus on the conceptual effects of coaching methods in lifelong education to help adult learners to shift their perspectives and thereby maximize their performance. The article gives insights into the essence of person-to-person coaching technique for discovering greater autonomy in adult learning as a means of developing and using their potential to achieve external goals. The authors chiefly draw on principles of Andragogy and Adult Learning and Coaching...

Global increase of cultural variety in modern society has led to the necessity of formation of ethnic and cultural tolerance of the youth as the most active social group. Educational space should be built inf the context of harmonization of intercultural and religious relations. Pedagogical influence on sensitive points of personal development, aimed at formation of ethnic and cultural tolerance may prevent the youth from patterns of extremist behaviour.

In the context of the gloablizing world and the developing Russian society with its ethnopolitical and ethnocultural specifics arises the necessity of organzing intercultural dialogue both internally and externally. History education is essential for achieving this goal. Before reaching its modern state, history education in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) passed through several stages which are outlined in this article. The most important changes took place in the 1990s. That stage saw the emergence of new types ...

The research considers the efficiency of using the regional component with the aim of teaching tolerance to students. The aim of the study was to reveal that the intensive implementation of elements of the regional component involving region related data in English lessons allows teachers to apply the principle of multiculturalism, which is focused on a sociocultural group with its main components - religious, political, ethnical, class, language, professional, gen-der, age peculiarities. Enriching the content of ...

Background. The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance, being in line with the main current trends in methodology of teaching foreign languages in Russia and abroad. The aim of the article is to present results of building a model of the development of autonomous learning skills among Yakut native students. Method. The research has revealed that there is a strong correlation between the content of the foreign language teaching in Russia and the development trends of the Russian society; the le...

Reflective practice has become a very important concept in teacher education. The current article focuses on the reflective approach to cultural experiences of pre-service teachers of foreign languages. It is maintained that reflexivity of cultural experience is considered as an assessment criterion for the cultural competence of foreign language learners. Hence, the aim of the research is to investigate the reflective skills of pre-service teachers of foreign languages concerning their cultural experience gained ...

Background: In the previous authors’ publications it was shown that modeling of fundamental properties of mathematics within the teaching process is very efficient. A group of fundamental properties consists of several so-called dualistic properties, which are inherent in all the branches of mathematics in all periods of its history. The purpose of this article is to bring to light some up-to-date factors, which generate a new appearance of the dualistic properties as well as their gradual modification. Methods: A...

Various pieces of research have agreed on the fact that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is crucial when it comes to career development and it can also be important in determining personality traits. We assume that the emotional intelligence profile of engineering students is a function of the configuration of a set of complex traits. The objective consists in building an emotional intelligence profile of a group of engineering students by extracting some definition attributes of the latter. To this purpose, we selecte...

The analysis of stepping qualifies within the current scope of biomechanical researches that complete the set of investigations concerning the posture deficiency prophylaxis and recovery. This paper aims to compare the main stepping indicators of students with deficient posture with those of healthy students, bringing additional impartial information on the posture assessment. To reach such target, a research was carried out during the academic year 2016-2017, in which students diagnosed with deficient posture and...

Our study focuses on learning characteristics of students attending initial teacher education (ITE) program for bachelor degree in preschool and primary school teaching. Previous research conducted [1], [2], [3], [8] showed that there are significant particularities in ITE that are related to professional maturity levels, multi-leveled usage of learning styles and an internal locus of control. Our approach aims to look for a well determined pattern in succeeding during the first year of ITE, so we can generate a p...

Nowadays, in the context of changes in teaching, the education of a man is coming to the foreground who would learn to link the knowledge of different fields of science to the knowledge and acquisition of values that promote the social way of life, living in associations of individuals. The teacher and his personality, professional competencies, ability to create a positive climate in the classroom are significant factors in fulfilling such education. The classroom climate greatly affects the overall results of sc...

The article analyzes translational reading in terms of translation studies, didactics of translation, personality- and activity-oriented, sociocultural and discursive approaches, which made it possible to identify specific features of this type of reading. For translators of scientific and technical texts, reading is an important work stage, constituting a more complex type of speech activity and having its own specific features that distinguish it from unprofessional reading. In terms of the competence approach, ...

The concept of organizational culture is of maximum interest worldwide. The wish for performance growth in forms generated in the seventh decade of the 20th century preoccupations for the analysis of this concept. A particular aspect of organizational culture is the culture of the school organization, the school presenting specific, particular aspects. Analysing the organizational culture of the school institution, Elena Vacarescu School, starting from the model of Geert Hofstede, we found the following: • Average...

Didactic competence, operationalized in the educational process, it means much more than a "technique" of carrying out the training tasks or the indispensable information for their fulfilment; It is the result of the teacher’s abilities, skills and attitudes, in direct correspondence with the nature and complexity of the instructive-educational objectives, with the exercise of all the didactic abilities, throughout the teacher's socio-professional behavior. In essence, both at European and national level, it is st...