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DEVELOPMENT AND USE
OF THE PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION COMPONENT
OF ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
IN THE CONTEXT OF A COMPETENCE-BASED APPROACH
E. A. Belnitskaya
The article deals with the issue of professional orientation of pupils through academic subjects in the information society. The development and use of electronic educational resources for training and professional orientation of pupils are considered in the competence approach context.
Key words: pupils, electronic educational resource, professional orientation, competence approach.
The modern world is going through a period of fundamental transformations connected with the formation of post-industrial society and the innovative economy, which demands a new paradigm of education. Formation of innovative education promoting sustainable development of the country that provides high-quality change of the educational process, an increase in its practical orientation, and creating conditions for receiving continuous education throughout one’s life have become the main objectives. Among the most important priorities of development in the educational sphere in the Republic of Belarus is strengthening the integration between production, science and the education system, development of electronic education, including publishing a new generation of electronic textbooks and manuals [1]. In the conditions of information saturation, the continuous changes in the role of advancing education in the context of the competence-based approach increase. This causes an orientation of the content of education on forming competences, providing an individual with development on metasubject and subject levels, which are shown as readiness for implementation of certain kinds of activity and solving tasks that a person faces.
At the same time, the problem of readiness of the individual for professional self-determination and the need of system work on career guidance of pupils is actualized.
In the Republic of Belarus, career-guidance acts as an independent psychological and pedagogical direction that is fulfilled within the functioning of social and pedagogical, and psychological service by education establishments, the centers of vocational guidance for youth, and subject teachers directly in the course of training by means of subjects. It becomes expedient to use the essentially new technical and technological capabilities of the information society, to develop electronic educational resources and fulfill their maintenance of a subject and professional orientation content.
The Electronic Educational Resources (EER) of modular architecture integrated into the structure of the National educational portal (http://adu.by) gives the chance to find a solution to integrative problems of training and career guidance by means of subjects. We developed an electronic educational resource in chemistry for the 9th grade (http://moodle.edu.by/course/view.php? id=38), which includes control and diagnostic, and interactive modules. For the ninth-graders,
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who are finishing training at the second step of the general secondary education, an important problem is the choice of an educational trajectory and a future profession. Therefore, the structure and maintenance of the resource includes a professional orientation component in the form of the special headings "Chemistry in Our Life and the World of Professions", "Whether You Know that ...”, additional text, illustrative material, and practically-focused tasks and a system of hyperlinks. Practically focused tasks and questions, and situational tasks about intersubject content, allow varying an applied orientation of training material depending on the chosen sphere of the future professional activity.
Hyperlinks provide navigation in relation to studying chemistry resources of a professional orientation character. Therefore, pupils can go to the pages of the sites containing actual information on chemical specialties and on the requirements of a person’s profession, on educational institutions of the region, and on the enterprises of the chemical industry in the Republic of Belarus.
EOR is intended for use on educational and facultative classes in chemistry and during pupils’ independent work. The use of the professional orientation component in EOR from the positions of a competence-based approach provides the corresponding interpretation of the content and requirements to results of educational activity of pupils, realization of the professional orientation function of the content in different types of educational activity (business games, discussions, virtual excursions to production facilities, design activities, etc.), and contextual training taking into account the forecast of demand for specialists in the concrete region.
Thus, there is a change in the role of the teacher, who becomes in a bigger measure the coordinator and the consultant, rather than a direct source of educational and professional orientation information. Development among pupils of the motivation to receive knowledge in the context of the image of their future professional activity, readiness for self-determination, and continuous selfeducation in the conditions of the information society becomes the most important task for the teacher.
Literature
1. Концепция национальной стратегии устойчивого социально-экономического развития Республики Беларусь до 2030 года [Электронный ресурс] - URL: www.economy.gov.by/nfiles/001708_663161_Proekt_21_1 l.docx
Translated from Russian by Znanije Central Translastions Bureas
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