The article deals with the history of formation of
the professional jazz education in Russia and the USA. The
author presents the analysis of similarities and differences
between the Russian and American systems of vocational
education. The stages of the evolution of pop-jazz education
in The US and Russia are considered on the example of the
three-stage education - school, secondary and higher vocational
education. Special attention is paid to the sources of
formation and development of pop-jazz education in Russia,
its founders and followers

The article discloses the model of social responsibility
forming while teaching senior pupils Economics. The
proposed model includes the purpose, the goals, the content
of activities, the components of senior pupils social responsibility
formation in the course of studying Economics, criteria
and indicators for its formation. Considerable attention is
given to experimental verification of this model. The results
obtained in the course of the experiment are adequate to the
assigned tasks and prove the study to be actual and new.

The article considers the questions of the quality
of modern education which is characterized by internationalization
and integration. The attention in concentrated on the
Russias place in the system of European education. The article
defines the strategy of the education quality development.
First of all it is necessary to form the quality philosophy to
work out new technologies of the education quality estimation;
to use foreign experience, to create the system of education
quality monitoring which will suit the world standards.
The author concludes that the modern education quality is
education based on the competence approach which can be
ensured only by a modern personality through the realization
of the value approach to the education quality management

The article discusses the question of new educational
technologies implementation into educational process;
namely of electronic educational resources (EER) which
promote the transition to the European Higher Education
model. The article presents the results of the questionnaire
poll conducted among the 1st and 2nd year students with the
aim to define their readiness to use EER in the process of
professional training. The results indicate the students interest
in creating of some reference and information electronic
educational resources for mobile devices that can work offline
without the Internet connection.

In this article the author describes some recent
trends of civic education and denotes its relationship with
professional education. The authors understanding of civic
stand is offered and justified in the article. The analysis of the
basic factors of forming of future jurists civic stand formation
is presented. The author presents the relations of civic stand
with patriotic feelings. The author puts forward an idea of efficacious-
targeted status of civic stand in professional system
of future jurists training

The article describes the origin and spread of
the interactive game Debate. It is well-known that Rhetoric,
one of the forms of which is a debate, has been one of
the compulsory humanitarian disciplines at medieval European
universities. The author shows the way debates were
transforming from a kind of entertainment into the means of
developing verbal communication skills which are essential
for students future activities in politics, business, social life,
education, psychology and others. The participation in such a
debate has an enormous effect on forming of its participants
self-consciousness and personal potential. At the same time,
it catalyzes the increase of students interest to studying other
countries culture and language.

The article presents the concept of a rhetorical
ideal derived from the historical analysis of the communicative
styles. It is concluded that the rhetorical ideal finds its full
implementation in high school professors speech. The author
highlights the main features which enable us to classify different
speech patterns as a rhetorical ideal. This makes possible
to single out the historically formed Russian style of communication
with students. The author clarifies the concept of pedagogical
communication and formulates the basic aspects of a
teachers verbal culture formation

This article is devoted to the problem of adolescents
civic stand forming. It describes the structure of personalitys
civic stand, gives main characteristics of a citizen,
including those which have become more relevant in modern
society. They are: creative thinking, the desire for self-education
and motivation for innovation. It presents the analysis of
the present work being done on the formation of civic stand
in the secondary school system. The author presents the diagnostics
results of the formed civic stand degree. The article
describes the main goals, objectives and principles of a transforming
program on forming the adolescents civic stand in
educational school system.

The article explores some peculiarities of using
the drama schools actors training system for a modern
teacher training. The author examines them basing on the
analysis of Stanislavski system, as well as its most effective
methods and techniques that contribute to professional
training of teachers for comprehensive schools. The research
results allow the author to conclude that special techniques
of vocational preparation are required for training of modern
teachers. They are supposed to assist in developing of not
only cognitive sphere, but also emotional sphere and creative
activities. Theater pedagogics can help to develop such a
technology. Its main features are deep individualization, creativity
and desire to fathom the nature of the expressiveness
of human feelings. The XXI century teacher should possess
not only theoretical knowledge, but also be a true professional
who can find convincing, interesting and creative approaches
to solve educational problems. In this connection, the methods
and devices of acting techniques are considered to be a
theoretical basis and practical tool for developing professionally
significant skills and qualities of a modern teacher

The article deals with the analysis of some aspects
of training economical translation techniques, exactly it
states the necessity of a range of didactic principles (including
scientific principle; principles of deliberateness; systematicity;
simplicity and use of visual methods) as priority of professional
activity training in education and parallel training of
professional skills, in the process of training written and oral
economical translation types. Besides, the peculiar features
of such a specific communicative sphere as economics discourse
have been described herein to prove distinctiveness
of the mentioned translation types

The article presents the analysis of motivational
sphere in the system of secondary vocational education. At
present the problem of motivation is gaining special importance.
The formation of educational activity motivation is an
interdisciplinary problem of training and education and is the
most important aspect of modern education. The objectives of
the research included the study of a modern student motivation,
the disclosure of the motivation components. The updating
of the education content through the influence of students
motivation should be considered the novelty of the research.
As a result it has been revealed that it is the motivation which
is the basic means of ensuring the increase of students level
of interest to the educational process. It will allow to increase
their personal scientific and creative potential.

The article is devoted to the method of projects
as a way of teaching the Russian language. The article considers
the system of lessons aimed at general revision of the
material studied in the 6 grade of a secondary school. The author
states that the revision is conducted according to the basic
principles of the method of projects. These principles are
specified in the article. The author presents a set of revision
lessons aimed at systematizing knowledge on topic Morphology
of a Noun. The article covers some problems of school
education due to which the progress of speech development
in secondary schools doesnt reach its goals. The author offers
solutions of the problems mentioned.

The article is devoted to the problem of forming
the foundations of the professional and communicative competencies
(PCC) for bilingual students in Higher Schools of
Medicine in Russia, which is explicated in the analysis of the
essential characteristics of the subject-professional competencies
(in their component composition) as innovative teaching
technologies aimed at improving the educational process.
The author has proposed and justified the description of the
range of competencies in the subject Latin Language based
on the new educational standards for Higher Schools of Medicine,
which contains a set of teaching tasks and contribute to
the goal of formation of the terminological language of the
medical profession for bilingual students.

The article deals with the problem of determining
the components of the teaching of cross-cultural communication
at language universities in modern conditions, describes
the difficulties of defining these components character and
amount. The author states that the process of cross-cultural
communication teaching consists of verbal, non-verbal and
paraverbal components. Besides it includes the creating of
the culturally-bound language personality having cross-cultural
knowledge and skills, and capable of adequately acquiring,
adapting and applying the knowledge obtained in the
process of cross-cultural communication.

The article considers the principle of students`
autonomy as a basis of Higher Education modernization. The
author puts forward the problem of changing the traditional
approach to teaching listening comprehension and proves the
necessity of forming the competence of autonomous listening
comprehension while teaching language university students.
This necessity is due to the modern higher standards of listening
comprehension skills at the modern stage of Higher
Linguistic Education development and modernization. The
article discusses the probable development of a new method
of teaching listening comprehension, gives its theoretical and
practical basis

The article gives grounds for the necessity of
paying special attention to forming various kinds of academic
writing skills in the process of educational activities. The author
stresses their great effectiveness, direct relations with
real professional activity and their potential to make active
such development zones as intellect, research abilities and
personal time management. The author has compared the
scientific and official styles. The results have enabled the
author to define lexical, morphological and syntactical differences
which are necessary to take into consideration while
teaching students to create written texts.

This article discusses the peculiarities of the
Technology training of students with disabilities and intact
intellect. The problem of teaching such students Technology
is to reduce the number of hours for their training, the use of
health-saving technologies; co-education of boys and girls either
in small groups or individually. In this regard, the authors
propose a curriculum for educating students with disabilities,
built on the allocation of technological content of the material,
the integration with teaching other subjects, the enhancement
of Technology training for students through the implementation
of projects and the use of information technology and
resources.

The article examines the way the innovative
character of basic education promotes the forming of technological
competence and universal studying actions. The author
believes it promotes both the technological competence
formation and the universal educational activity. The author
states its necessary to stimulate every teacher to work out
their own projects of some sections for the general education
program based on The Exemplary Program on Technology
Teaching - 2010, taking section «Wood Art Processing» as
an example. The author gives grounds for consistent involvement
of schoolchildren into creative activity by conversion
from a learning task to educational projects and then to creative
projects. The author gives an approximate content of a
project basing on the traditional project structure.

The article analyses the conditions of forming
schoolchildrens key competences at Technology lessons.
The author gives the classification of technological education
key competences and the technological education influencing
them. The relations of Technology lessons with schoolchildrens
aesthetic upbringing are disclosed. The author underlines
the significance of the method of projects; ability to see,
feel and create beauty in the course of labor activity. Its stated
that beauty, having huge attractive power for the person, stimulates
the persons activity in the most effective way.

The article considers the complex of pedagogical
problems of the traditions development in teaching Historical
Domestic Dance as a part of choreographic education
system. The article describes the history of the subject Historical
Dance, examines the methodological aspects of its
teaching. The author gives a detailed examination of the educational-
methodological maintenance of teaching the subject
Historical Dance in contemporary Russian choreographic
educational institutions. The author examines the objectives
of keeping the teaching traditions of the Historical Domestic
Dance and formulates the main principles of this subject
teaching.

This article defines the capabilities of ICT means
usage at Biology lessons in the 8th grade of a secondary
school. The author presents the methodology of organizing
the secondary school students cognitive activity at Biology
lessons with the use of ICT. A set of recommendations for the
methods of using ICT has been developed. The experiment
has been carried out in Moscow Region secondary schools.
The experimental teaching has been done within the current
curriculum on Biology. The developed recommendations on
teaching methods have proved their effectiveness. All the results
have been analyzed and processed.

The article is devoted to the question of the art
students professional competence development in the course
of Applied Arts (having taken marquetry as an example). The
lessons of Applied Arts given in the system of higher professional
education enable future artists to master the main professional
skills, develop general outlook and get acquainted
with the history of folk art of Russia and other countries

The authors propose the concept of constructing
virtual educational enterprise of the University, as well as
its structure taking Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) as an
example. The article covers the questions of practical implementation
of an interdisciplinary team interaction of staff and
students of TPU in the implementation of project activities
within the academic virtual enterprise. The authors present
the project implemented in the educational structure of the
virtual TPU enterprise. The implemented stages of the product
life cycle are also given. The authors give proofs for the
necessity of the development of the educational technology
using the virtual enterprise in the universitys research and
educational activities