The Organization of the Training of Technical College Students Using Practice-Oriented Tasks

Abstract

Physics and chemistry are the comprehensive basis for the training of a modern engineer. The most important type of learning activities for the students is to solve problems. The purpose of this paper is to generalize and systematize the experience of increasing the motivation of students of technical training areas for the study of fundamental scientific disciplines using practice-oriented tasks. We identified the following educational functions of teaching objectives: cognitive, developing, a feature of the unity of theory and practice, demonstration of interdisciplinary links, assessment of the quality of students' knowledge. This article describes the experience of using a practice-oriented task in the training of technical fields and specialties students, the stages of the developed method of teaching students to solve problem are described and substantiated. This method contains the following steps: 1) preparatory 2) developing an algorithm for problems of this type, 3) diagnostics and teaching them the unformed actions, 4) solving problems 5) control and reflective. In addition, the article provides guidelines for the organization of the students' activities for designing practice-oriented tasks. It also gives the results of diagnosis of individual psychological characteristics of students personalities, which demonstrates not only an increase in their learning motivation, but also the broadening of their outlook, the growth of interest in life, in the future professional activity. It is shown that the practice-oriented approach makes it possible to successfully carry out activities to build students skills and abilities to solve problems, it also allows to increase their learning motivation, it favors the development of creative personality, which can be in demand in the labor market in the future. However, the main motives of choosing the profession changes: the cognitive and creative begin to dominate instead of the material and the level of succeed motivation increases.

Transdisciplinary approach to improving study motivation among university students of engineering specialties

“…The use of practice-oriented tasks to increase engineering students' motivation in learning of fundamental scientific disciplines was systematized and summarized by Politsinsky and Demenkova (2015), and Filho et al (2016). Politsinsky and Demenkova (2015) concluded that a practice-oriented approach helps to increase of learning motivation.…”

Self-regulating in higher education: a psychological and pedagogical framework

“…This happens mostly when the learning activities of students are structured on the basis of projects, because implementing projects in the context of production may require special competences, which are often acquired by weak students. A number of scholars in education emphasize the need for the practice-based learning in designing teaching and learning activities to train engineers [8], and teaching physics and chemistry [9].…”