The successful solution of strategic, tactical, operational tasks within higher and college education implies not only the formation of diverse competencies, but also the presence of one's own internal behavioural regulator -the social work specialist's (SWS) value orientations. One of the leading ways to implement the concept of modern university and college education, including student-centered teaching, is to rethink the role and place of subject preparation. The emphasis is shifted from regarding a subject as the main goal to regarding it as a means of revealing students' potential. Another idea of this concept is connected with the construction of such educational forms, in which the educational process, its understanding and research work exists in harmonious unity, which favours the development of the future SWS's personal position. The main idea of cooperative learning technologies is to create conditions for active joint learning activities of students in different learning situations. Combining students in small groups of 3 -4 people, setting one common task and specifying the role of each group member make everyone responsible for the results of the whole group. Therefore, less prepared students have an incentive to learn new knowledge, while more prepared students are interested in high academic achievements of their groupmates. The ideology of the project method and cooperative learning is humane in its essence. These are psychological and pedagogical technologies that ensure not only the successful assimilation of educational material by all students, but also their intellectual development, independence, benevolence towards the teacher and each other.