The article reflects the results of studying such structural components of teachers’ personality as: optimism, sense of humor, and communicativeness. The hypothesis about higher level of students’ cognitive activity development in classes where the teacher has such traits of character is empirically proved. The author considers the teacher’s optimism and faith in pupils to be a factor of development of universal educational activity. To confirm this hypothesis the progress of students was studied through the analysis of their final grades. Then the teachers’ traits of character intrinsic for pedagogical optimism were examined. The comparative analysis confirmed the author’s hypothesis.

The article defines the concept of "psychological safety of the educational environment" (which is not interpreted unambiguously in literature), connected with psychological health of a personality in the whole but not with separate psychological processes. The components of the educational environment are considered. Psychological threats in education are analyzed. The use of a coplex of theoretical (analisis, synthesis) and empirical (observation, conversation, survey) methods enabled to develop the theoretical model of interrelation and interaction of social institutions and other components of educational environment in accordance with the concept of a holistic approach to education. Besides, psychologically safety of this environment is described. The article presents the results of diagnostics of teenagers’ ideas about health, where the most important condition for creating a psychologically safe educational environment is the attitude to health as a value.

The article is devoted to the issue of the formation of the category "digital education". The main content of the study is the analysis of speeches of heads of state departments, recognized experts in the field of digital education, and foreign researchers. Regulatory documents and scientific texts are also analysed. In the article the authors define approaches to the content interpretation and the content of the concept of "digital education", its essence and structure. The study presents comparative indicators of the components included into the concept of "digital education". The work is of an interdisciplinary nature.

The article reveals the pedagogical guidelines of the cultural-historical approach in modern education, which direct the teacher's activity to create the image of "the active person as a subject of culture." The author shows the interrelation of culture and education at different stages of the development of society. The necessity of taking into account the new type of consciousness of modern children and change the adult's view of the "world of childhood" is pointed at. The modern type of development of society and the type of culture are described. It is concluded that these pedagogical landmarks determine the conceptual content and a single vector of the modern education development, which makes it possible to implement the continuity of educational programs and create a unified socio-cultural space.

The article is devoted to the topical issues of development of giftedness at different stages of the child's growing up. Basing on the understanding of the essence of growing up, which had been determined in the writings of famous Russian psychologists, the author reveals the necessary and sufficient conditions for growing up. Besides, the features of designing the educational space for children's giftedness development are given. The example of organization of periodical training in the framework of “Moscow Region Small Academy” is described.

The article is devoted to the analysis of methodological and methodical aspects of the anthropological system modernization of the system of inclusive education on the basis of V.I. Vernadsky’s concept about the energy nature of the man. The modernization of the inclusive education system, based on the principles of anthropology, implies the need to consider students with disabilities as subjects with their inclinations and abilities energy potential. The methodology of the energy unity of the man’s objective reality and his environment forms the basis for interaction between the natural science teachers and the teachers of humanitarian disciplines on the formation of the systemic worldview of students in the inclusive education system. That will enable them to realize the energy potential of their inclinations and abilities through participation in the creation of material and spiritual values demanded by the society.

The increased interest to engineering in recent years has led to the ambiguity of its interpretations. The authors of the article summarize the main points of view and on the basis of the etymological analysis identify the main components of engineering: science, technology, nature and society. The results obtained allowed us to consider engineering as a model for designing educational programs for school education. The methods of designing the content of subjet and methasubject components are substantiated by the method of ontologies. Besides, they are supported by the specific examples of technological solutions in the regional curriculum and the natural-science direction.

One of the main factors, defining successful activity of an enterprise in modern economic situation, is its personnel’s ability to work effectively in non-typical and fast-changing circumstances. Besides, their continuous professional development and self-improvement are important. The ai of the article is to assess technical universities abilities to train specialists satisfying the current and perspective demands of labour market. The basis for the research is the analisis of the generalized academic and applied models as they reflect the specifics of students’ approaches to solving the problems stated. On the basis of models studying the conclusion is drawn that it is necessary to modernize the educational model and include special desegregating subjects into the curriculum of technical universities.

Аbstract. The article discloses the urgency of using the in teaching a foreign language within the framework of socially oriented innovative courses. Comparatively new for the Russian education flipped classroom methodology is analised. Some basic didactic and methodical advantages of using it in the high school are given. The principles for developing an elective course «American History and Culture» on the base of the learning management system (LMS) “Eliademy” are revealed.

The article is devoted to the study of the subject of assessment behavior in the process of evaluating the foreign language writing. Assessment as a cognitive process is considered in the context of decision-making activities, when the subject addresses various strategies of behaviour. The analysis of the subject’s activity made it possible to identify the following factors: direct and indirect, internal and external, controlled and uncontrolled. They affect both the subject and the process itself. Basing on the results of the study the author comes to the conclusion that modeling the subject’s activity allows to predict his behavior and manage the situation of assessment. Clarification of the factors influencing the subject’s behavior contributes to the effective organization of subject’s activities and to validity of the assessment.

The question under discussion is the methods of teaching different types of English locutions to students. Special attention is paid to the phraseological units, whose meaning is not transparent and cannot be guessed out of the context as it has nothing to do with the literal meanings of constituent words. It is asserted that the full lexical competence necessarily requires the mastery of a certain number of set expressions of the target language. The paper offers a procedure which combines learning the meaning of a locution with its practical use as a means to enhance students’ speech activity. It will undoubtedly facilitate the learners’ communicative competence. After introducing a new phraseological unit, the students give its literal translation, then they go on to discuss what this locution may mean. In the course of the discussion (which will inevitably include the wrong definitions of the phraseological units) the interlocutors will come across the semantic nuances and thus develop the skill of the language analysis and language guessing. At the last stage the learners are asked to recollect the appropriate Russian phraseological unit with the same meaning. The procedure described has been successfully tested in English classes with the students of the Language University.

A common problem in teaching mathematics is the problem of visualizing drawings of geometric bodies and figures. The article considers ways of solving the problem by creating and exploring material and information models. The most promising direction is the use of visualization technologies in the educational process. Recommendations are given on the use of the GeoGebra interactive geometric environment as a means of preparing students for solving complex stereometric problems.

In teaching and educational process of modern school the research methods are actively used. The article deals with the problem the biology teacher faces while arranging school scientific research work. Namely, the teacher deals with lack of new information on the methods of studying biological objects. The article presents an example of schoolchildren’s research work organization where the methodology for assessing the preschool children physical development is involved. The results of the schoolchild's research presented in the article show that the methods are available for mastering. They enable maximum independence of students and their research competence development.

This article deals with a critical period phenomenon among those studying a foreign language. Developing the notion of critical period in acquiring a native language, the researchers concluded that similar period may exist in the process of the second language acquisition. This resulted in a popular opinion that studying a foreign language after the early puberty will not be efficient. The research we conducted was aimed at comparing the results of testing two age groups (5 year-olds versus 23 year-olds). However, the data obtained did not show considerable quantitative differences in the number of errors made, though the error type varied. The results also demonstrate that learners’ age is not the only constituent of potential efficacy of language learning as motivation and language input can also be of particular importance. Possible use of the term “sensitive period” instead of “critical period” allows more flexible interpretation of this phenomenon.

The paper deals with the problem of Information Transmission Verbs Corps` forming and presenting it in the Educational Dictionary of Russian for Foreigners. The author has extracted 340 verbs and put forward the principles for creating the Complex Dictionary with the features of Thesaurus, Grammar Dictionary, Explanatory and Phraseological Dictionary. The research let author allocate the language meanings` types, relevant for this semantic zone, being the criteria for classifying the Information Transmission Verbs as well as the Dictionary Clause Structure with its Notes.

The article is devoted to the organizational and methodical bases of innovative development of the system of retraining and professional development of teachers of technology at a higher education institution. The article defines the methodological aspects of innovative development of educational process in the system of retraining and professional development of teachers of technology at the faculty of technology and business (FTP), specific problems of this development are defined and ways of their solution in the system of retraining and advanced training of teachers of technological education are offered.

This article deals with the problem of combining formal and non-formal education. Examples of online courses (e-learning environment of Moscow Region State University, online courses of sketches and others) are given. The article deals with the possibilities of continuing education. Within the pedagogical experiment the example of social learning sketch was given. Its use in teaching "Academic painting" in Moscow Region State University is analysed. Questionnaires and interviews with students were used as a method of research. In conclusion, the article states that the work with the online course helps students to consolidate, generalize, systematize knowledge, skills obtained in full-time classes at university.

The article reviews examples of how emoji can be utilized in teaching English. Basing on the analysis of different ways of its use we make a conclusion about advisability of using it in class, define the advantages and disadvantages of these methods in teaching activities, and identify the way of coping with possible problems a teacher can face while using this graphic language. The topic is unexplored by the Russian-speaking community.

In the article the concept of contextual approach to teaching higher mathematics is concretized on the basis of the theoretical analysis of didactic and methodological sources on the problems of the contextual approach to teaching. On the one hand, teaching higher mathematics is a methodical system, the systemically important factor of which is the interrelation between the educational-performance and competence goals of education. On the other hand, it is a professionally directed teaching higher mathematics for future specialists in the bio-source industry. The tasks and the main components of this system are determined.

The article describes the results of the study of college students’ social competence in the structural and functional context. The authors analyzed the body of texts of social and philosophical content, which reflect the concept of "social structure","social function", as well as psychological and pedagogical research in the field of competence approach. On the basis of the structural and functional method the authors determine the composition of college students’ social competence. On the basis of the theoretical analysis in this paper the author proposes the structure of college students’ social competence, which includes the following components: cognitive; emotional-volitional; reflexive-value; communicative; general cultural (sociocultural); creative. Each component is studied in accordance with its specific content and function.