Embeddedness of mentoring in the professional activity demands from company specialists not only a high level of their psycho-pedagogical formation, but also others which include common cultural and professional competencies for effective corporate training of interns and young employees. The purpose of the article is to develop a structural-functional model of corporate training of technical specialists in mentoring in the conditions of modern production. The leading method is modeling, allowing consideration of this issue as task-oriented and organized process for improving the professional, common cultural competences, and for formation of special competences of company specialists, that they will need to effectively carry out the mentoring activities. The structural-functional model of corporate training of technical specialists in carrying out mentoring in modern production includes objective, methodological, content-related, organizational and procedural and efficiency components. The model aims at integrating professional production and psycho-pedagogical training of teachers, in which the improvement of their professional and interprofessional competencies for conscious and responsible management of their changes in professional development, as well as for the solution of psycho-educational and organizational-methodological problems of interns' corporate training.

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This article examines the priority areas of the activity of colleges in terms of the civic-patriotic education of students and factors impacting on the development of a sense of civics in youth students. The authors propound a model for the development of a sense of civic responsibility in college students, propose pedagogical conditions that would ensure the effectiveness of formation of a sense of civic responsibility in students, and bring to light the major forms, methods, and means of the civil making of the student's personality.

The urgency of the problem under investigation is due to the fact that technological thinking skills are today one of the important conditions of polytechnic education and professional orientation of the pupils of different types of schools. Technological thinking contributes to the development of pupils' innovative and inventive abilities, as well as promotes the scientific level of education. The purpose of the current article is to reveal different methods for developing technological thinking skills of the pupils of contemporary profession-oriented schools. These methods are based on the development laws of the features of profession-oriented schools and are focused on the pupils, prone to technological activities. The authors conclude that the considered training methods and techniques stimulate the development of technological thinking skills of the pupils, as well as spark their interest in technological, encourage the broad scientific and cognitive activity that characterizes general labor education of profession-oriented schoolchildren.