The article presents a sample of a project for high school students carried out at the junction of Literature and History. А few lines from Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin serve as the starting point of the project, where A.S. Pushkin’s contemporaries become characters of the project. In the course of identification of the author’s contemporaries the students should resort to a number of cultural and historical facts that allow them learn more about A.S. Pushkin as an outstanding chronicler of the first third of the 19th century. The students make sure that Eugene Onegin is really "the Encyclopedia of the life in Russia”.

The article discusses the problem of estimating postgraduates’ research competence formation during their study at the faculty of Mathematical Education at a pedagogical university. The author describes the signs and the content of postgraduates’ research competences; reveals the succession and content of stages of forming the research competences. The author offers a set of criteria and indices, which enable to determine the level of postgraduates’ research competences formation. Besides, the characteristics of these levels, as well as the diagnostic methods and procedures are given.

The problem of the correct choice of distractors in test tasks of the closed-type and in the compliance-type tasks is considered. The analysis of the published test tasks on physics, including in the Unified State Examinations tests, shows that the cases of incorrect selection of distractors are quite often observed. It leads to violation of the principle of equal appeal of distractors and, therefore, to considerable decrease in their real quantity. The article presents the recommendations on making the correct choice of distractors in tests from a school course of physics.

The article is devoted to one of the key elements of the FGOS OOO concept - to the formation of universal cognitive operations at the lessons of Mathematics at school. The article describes some basic types of universal cognitive operations; as well as the methods of developing them in students of a secondary school. The article presents the tasks aimed at developing the universal cognitive operations and enabling to estimate them. The author gives guidelines for developing students’ universal cognitive operations at the lessons in a secondary school.

The article presents the concept of developing abilities for studying Physics which is realized in the educational set of a basic Course of Physics at a secondary school. The concept includes the following regulations: on the three-stage teaching Physics at school; on the system developing factors of its contents; on the physical methods as the course components; on the unit of training material contents. They determined the structure and forms of presentation of educational material at general and specialized levels of studying; as well as the organization of the research laboratory works and project activities.

The Article is devoted to the analysis of kinds of traditional and modern dolls, their influence and importance in the educational process and in the training and development of the cultural properties of the modern search and creative process of the master-puppeteer. The author, based on a comparison of traditional and author’s dolls, defines the capabilities of the application not only dolls as object, but also for the process of image creation and objectivity of the dolls in the training of students. Question about the interconnectedness of the creative process of dolls and professional development of students of art faculties of Universities is determined in the context of the conservation importance of self-determination of artistic and creative activity of students.

The correlation between pupil’s achievements at school and the level of family’s social prosperity is considered in the article. The author singles out the reasons of poor school progress; as well as the connection between children’s lagging behind and establishing of friendly children-parent mutual relations. The ways for enhancing students’ advancement are described. The author offers some methods of socio-pedagogical consultancy of parents in the conditions of a comprehensive school. The purpose of such consultancy is to enhance pupils’ progress in studies and improve families’ social characteristics. It is established that socio-pedagogical consultancy of parents favors overcoming children’s poor progress.

The article considers the history of the concept of deontology abroad and presents the periodization of its development in Russia. The main historical facts, which have had certain influence on appearing of this concept in terminology, are named. The article describes the specific use of deontology categories in teaching. The authors present the fundamental concepts of this phenomenon, disclose its content and connection with the other branches of scientific knowledge, such as: psychology, sociology, pedagogy, medicine and journalism. The analysis of deontology correlation with the modern philosophical categories of ethics and morality is performed.

The article actualizes the problem of projecting the model of productive training with the purpose of increasing a social worker’s professional competence of in the territorial network of social services in the region. The author describes the role of methodological approaches, having interdisciplinary character; as well as of the indirect method, and the functional help. It is stated that they all form a conceptual basis of projecting the practice of social actions. The results of initial diagnostics of a social worker’s professional aptitude are substantiated. The author reveals the main conditions and defines the problems of developing a social worker’s professional competence as a main criterion of the quality indicators of social servicing performed at the world level.

The article is devoted to social engineering, which is an important condition for self-development of a person, as well as for developing communicative, organizational, social and prognostic competences. A student’s self-development is closely connected with the possibility to self-actualize oneself through social engineering. The article addresses the issues related to the preparation and implementation of social projects in the educational process at the Leader School. The author presents the data of the experimental research.