Pedagogy

The article provides a critical understanding of the changes in the modern system of school and university education, which determines the functional restructuring of a teacher and his/her activities during the transition to digital educational content. A criterion assessment of changes in the activity of a modern teacher in the conditions of digitalization of educational routes in the logic of Hegel's philosophy is carried out.

The article examines the features of the modern education system, the professional activity of a teacher that is impossible outside the information space. The functional and methodological capabilities of digital tools and services, electronic educational resources, educational platforms, websites and portals for the effective interaction of university teachers with students of pedagogy analyzed.

The article points out the need for teachers who are interested and capable of methodically competent application of digital services in the educational process. A system for the formation of future teachers’ professional skills in the use of digital services in is proposed. The components of this system are considered, examples of educational and methodological tasks for the development of students' competencies related to the use of the resources of these services to support the educational activities of schoolchildren are given.

The article discusses the possibilities and ways of forming digital educational content in the discipline "Foreign language". The article emphasizes the task of a university teacher at the moment, which is to use all means and sources in the educational process and contribute to the development of modern digital education. In the absence of a language environment, it is difficult to find new forms and methods of teaching.

The article contains the critical accounts of the use of social media sites as a tool of distance learning during the 2020 global coronavirus pandemic. The need of organizing the whole learning process at a distance poses considerable challenges for university teachers. To solve these problems, many of them started to use social media sites for the purpose of teaching. It is argued that the results of this process are controversial.

A modern university teacher is the driving force of the higher education development. The teacher prepares competitive specialists for a rapidly changing society and constantly emerging new challenges in any production area. The article examines the main communicative competencies that a modern teacher of higher education possesses: educational, scientific, innovative. The current problems of teaching foreign languages during the period of distance work are considered.

The article presents some philosophical arguments in defense of the idea of the necessity to preserve the traditional form of pedagogical communication in the education system. These arguments are associated with the philosophical understanding of man as a social and moral being, and education – as a person acquiring his own image in the process of a living dialogue between a teacher and a student.

The purpose of the article is to try to solve the problem of increasing the effectiveness of foreign language training in Russian universities and forming the necessary universal and professional competencies for University graduates. The general scientific methods of comparative analysis, synthesis and generalization of the most common approaches, as well as existing methods and techniques of teaching a foreign language were applied. The advantages of choosing a pragmatic interdisciplinary multi-aspect approach to teaching a foreign language at a University are noted.

The article deals with the peculiarities of studying special terminology by the students of non-linguistic departments. The purpose of the current research is to evaluate the level of professional terminology acquisition by the second-year students of the department “Nanotechnologies and microsystem engineering » at the Ivanovo State University. The material included the students’ written papers, in which they were given various tasks, concerning their knowledge of nanotechnological terminology.

The article provides a critical analysis of the educational process organization in the technical university master's degree programme in terms of the modular approach to learning. The problems faced by students during teaching practice are discussed. The article offers psychological and pedagogical conditions for the formation of readiness for pedagogical activity and effective pedagogical training of undergraduates.