The article reveals the peculiarities of a pedagogue’s activity, such as: the investigative function of a pedagogue in the context of his professional teacher-training activities. The authors show the necessity of using the investigative component while educating, upbringing and developing students. Nowadays a pedagogue should take into account the science-based approach to pedagogical specialities, master the methods of pedagogical research and have the skills to analyze professional experience. The process of development and self-development of professional competency in the system of continuous teacher-training education is given special attention to. That should have certain effect on professional results.

The article is devoted to one of the most important aspects in the future specialist’s professional realization - mobility. The two types of mobility are considered: academic and professional. The author gets the readers acquainted with the new teaching aid developed at the Department of Foreign Languages of Moscow State Regional University, emphasizing its role in Bachelors of Economics’ forming general cultural and professional competences necessary for further existence in the mode of permanent mobility.

The article is devoted to the application of distance learning in the practice of school students’ pre-university training for entering technical universities and their adaptation to the specifics of further studying the engineering profession. The methodical principles and technical features of the educational process for distance courses at Bauman MSTU are presented. Special consideration is given to the use of high quality teaching materials that do not only compensate didactic losses due to limited contact with the teacher, but also provide unique opportunities for virtual learning. Statistical analysis of the courses contingent over the last 3 years is made.

In this article the author considers the problem of music thinking by exploring various levels of this category. By stating the multidimensionality of music thinking the article discloses and defines some specific features of music thinking, as well as the approach to consideration of its components. The author mentions such scientific field as semiotics, as well as its section “Semantics”. The prospects of its development in the study of music thinking are stated. Having conducted the comparative analysis of researches studying music thinking, the author concludes that it is necessary to use an integrative approach in the process of teaching music at school.

The article presents the innovative methods developed to improve the learning of new lexical units by preschool children with general speech underdevelopment. The technique of active vocabulary expansion is described. The article provides examples of tasks. The necessity of including sensor materials into the work with lexicon is justified. The importance of taking into consideration the leading representative system of preschoolers in order to enrich their vocabulary is shown. The topicality, novelty and prospects of the developed method is highlighted.

The article deals with the tasks given to the participants of the theoretical round of the Chemistry contest of school students of Moscow region. A large number of tasks were systematized and the results are described in the article. Besides, various types of problems on organic chemistry are given, as well as the main approaches to solving them. The need to widen the students’ outlook is substantiated. In particular, it is necessary to include into the preparation for the contest the knowledge of physics, biology and mathematics.

The article deals with the problem of teaching Russian to foreign cadets. The key concept of the system of training foreign military men is the architectonic of a text on engineering. The author compares the architecture proposed by I.B. Avdeyeva, with the architectonic of the textbooks and manuals on various military skills. The author states that a text for teaching military engineering have specific architectonic elements, which determine approaches to its study. The author concludes that taking into consideration the specifics of such academy text allows to implement into the course of studying the demand-oriented professional training of foreign military personnel. Besides, it contributes to the development of their communicative and professional competence in Russian.

The article considers the possible use of computer network information and communication platforms in terms of organizing independent foreign language studies. The main trends of devising new techniques of foreign language teaching on the basis of information and communication technologies are singled out. Special emphasis is given to the potential of social networking services which originally were not intended for educational purposes. The platforms YouTube and Мой мир@Mail.Ru are given an outline from the point of view of their possible use as additional means of teaching a foreign language.

The article analyses the approaches connected with achieving metasubject results in literary education. One of the objectives of the given research is to answer the questions about the results of literary education, which of them should be considered metasubject ones. Students’ ability to comprehend the author's viewpoint is considered as one of the main metasubject results of literary education. The author analyzes the essence of the metasubject content of literary education and discloses the pedagogical conditions necessary for achieving metasubject results at classes on Literature.

The article presents the methodological guide for training students for writing an application form and getting ready for a job interview. The author highlights two stages of training - the writing stage and the verbal stage. The writing stage includes the training for correct filling in an application form. The author demonstrates its structure and different ways of training the correct writing. The verbal stage shows the ways of organizing a professionally-oriented language game aimed to train language skills necessary for participating in a job interview using the English language. The article supplies the variety of methodological ways of the above-mentioned training.

The paper describes the author’s experience in solving the problem of intension of educational activity of students, as required by the paradigm of learner-activity training and educational standards. Displaying the general direction as well as fragments of teaching methods of the post-secondary education while implementing the competence and activity approaches. A description of some of the methods and techniques of educational activity of students in the study of pedagogy: lecture with advanced studies, an analysis of pedagogical situations, a business game “conference”.

This article describes the issues relating to the problems of contents development and methodological support of forming a future technology teacher’s readiness for guiding students’ research and project-design activities. The pedagogical conditions that form the background for most successful forming future technology teacher’s readiness for guiding students’ research and project-design activities are scrutinized.

The article is devoted to the topical problem of teaching methods of technological education at Moscow State Regional University. The purpose of the article is to create a holistic notion of the subject "Methods of Technological Education" and methodical system that meets modern requirements of training bachelors of teacher education. The author presents the main directions of the organization of systemic continuous work with the use of the procedure of technological education. The main idea of developing the structure and content of the course "Methods of Technological Education" is to give the bachelors a holistic notion of methods of teaching technology as an object of study.

This article presents a didactic analysis of the educational theme "Pedagogical Communication" which is included in the section "Practical Pedagogy" of the subject "Pedagogy" through interdisciplinary relations between General and Theatre Pedagogy. It is proved that studying this topic in combination with advanced study of disciplines of Theatre Pedagogy ("Acting" and "Stage Speech") as a special course stimulates forming a series of professional-pedagogical competences, thus contributing to the formation of professional competences of students-future teachers. In addition, the author highlights the importance of interdisciplinary relationships to disclose basic provisions of the analyzed topics, determines them to be objectively necessary, as the knowledge of the subjects from the list of Theatre Pedagogy complement, enrich, and sate pedagogical knowledge.

The model of forming an engineer’s personality, where the spiritual and moral component being the most important, is scrutinized. The necessity of developing competences based on the professional and creative abilities of a personality is substantiated. In order to determine the level of spiritual and moral component diagnostic and monitoring tests were conducted, their results were analyzed. The author concludes that it is the universal values and imperishable moral standards which should become the basis of a personality’s spiritual and moral development.

Taking into account the composition of “students’ readiness for professional pedagogical activity" comprising motivational, cognitive, technological, psychophysiological, social and reflexive components, the author points out the need of including cloud technologies into the “information educational environment” of an educational institution. These technologies, when used in the methodical subsystem together with the informational-communicative methods of training, will allow to carry out conventional-role reflection necessary for forming the above mentioned components within pedagogical facilitation.

The civil-patriotic education of modern youth implies the use of various approaches. One of them is the ethno-cultural approach, enabling to develop a person’s identity in a multicultural space with a solid foundation of tolerance as an important quality of a person as a citizen and patriot. The article considers pedagogical grounds and conditions for the development of ethno-cultural approach to the civil-patriotic education of youth. It is stated that one of the main principles of civil-patriotic education is multicultural identity, which stimulates young people’s awareness of cultural diversity in the modern world.

The author has considered the levels of professional self-development of the future social teachers in the course of high school training. The criteria were identified, the presence of which were set by level indicators characterization. The components in the structure of professional self-improvement development are defined. The general levels of professional self-development of future social teachers in the process of university training for criteria: professional orientation, self-efficacy, sociability, energy-efficiency at the final stage. The scientific novelty of the study is that it was developed and theoretically substantiated the essence of the concept of "professional self-improvement the future social teachers," his constituents characterized levels of formation of professional self-improvement.

The article reveals the value-dialogic content of forming a student’s spiritual and moral values. The authors focus on the fact that forming a student’s spiritual and moral values in dialogic interaction is a long, complex and systematically organized work of teachers and students, whose ultimate goal is to transform the values of Orthodox culture into personally important values. The formation of spiritual and moral values will be more successful in case students have a necessity for self-correction and self-education; as well as when they become aware of situations where their spiritual and moral values are in demand.

The article deals with the problem of teaching verbal communication and forming foreign students’ social and cultural competence. Authentic video materials are considered as a means of forming the social and cultural competence. The author of the article offers a technique of using movies in a series of lessons on the topic "From the History of Russia. Heroes from Different Eras". The main stages of working with authentic video are described. A set of exercises developed for each movie is presented in the article. The main idea of work with movies included into a series of lessons is to give foreign students the understanding of the Russian national character and factors influencing its formation.