Project-based training of students as the main condition for their readiness for professional activity

Abstract

Project-based learning is gaining momentum more and more, as it is a very effective and relevant approach to teaching and learning. Numerous studies indicate that after its successful implementation, students' motivation to learn improves and their level of achievement increases. Also, this form of work helps to partially implement the program of early career guidance of students, so that in the future graduates consciously choose a profession and an educational institution. Since learning is a social activity that takes place within student groups, culture and past experience, through project-based learning, students have the opportunity to use not only knowledge of academic disciplines, but also learn to negotiate, make common decisions, be responsible in accordance with their role in the learning team and interpret the results of their activities together. It also gives teachers the opportunity to see students in a new light, to help them develop their innate abilities into a new image, which sometimes fails in the traditional lesson system. In addition, project-based learning is often implemented through interdisciplinary connections that go beyond the program of one particular subject. This greatly expands the teacher's capabilities and promotes creativity, and students often have tasks in the process of solving which they gain practical skills that are unforeseen in the theoretical part of the educational process.