Педагогические науки/2. Проблемы подготовки специалистов

Doroshenko S.A.

Southern Federal University, Russia

Organization of self-study work of the students

as the way of optimizing training process

Self-study is an integral and important form of learning process. The aim of self-study is the formation of student’s knowledge and skills as the basic professional competences aimed at independent creative solution of technical and scientific problems arising in the practice of the future specialist. Both the purpose and the means of education, the relevance of the search methods and the ways of effective management of this process is extremely high due to the student’s self-study work. Urgency of the management student’s self-study work is obvious. Self-study is an important component of the educational process, in which there is a formation of skills, abilities and knowledge, and, further, provides students with the knowledge techniques of cognitive activity, interest in creative work and, ultimately, the ability to solve technical and scientific problems. It was in the course of self-study can show motivation, determination, self-organization, self-reliance, self-control, and other personal characteristics of the student. In this connection, planning, organization and implementation of a student in the absence of a teacher is important to student learning in college. The learning process should be organized so that the student has learned not only the content of the subjects taught, but also ways of acquiring knowledge. Organization of self-study work of the students assumes a flexible system which helps to achieve the use of network capacity. The advantages of using computer technology in the organization of self-study work include the ability to provide individualization and differentiation of instruction, the expansion of the materials used by providing access to distributed resources (including remote, low-circulation, rare materials, etc.), stimulating activity, motivating the students during the development of educational material, the intensification of the learning process, the convenience and clarity of presentation, ease of travel used to quickly find the information and modeling of processes and phenomena, display them in a dynamic, growing educational performance. The practical result of the self-study work of the students is the development of the theoretical material, reinforce knowledge of theoretical material through the use of the necessary tools in a practical way, the application of the knowledge and skills to analyze the situation and make the right decision, the application of the knowledge and skills to create their own position.

The success of self-study work is determined by the level of preparation of the students. Self study suggests the maximum activity of the students in various aspects: the organization of intellectual work, searching for information, the desire to make knowledge beliefs. Psychological conditions of individual work of students are in their academic excellence, positive attitude to it, interest and enthusiasm for the subject, understanding that with proper organization of independent work to acquire skills and experience creativity.

The main difficulty is the need of self-organization. Many students have great difficulties related to the lack of skills of analysis, note-taking, working with primary sources, the ability to clearly express their thoughts, plan their time, take into account the individual characteristics of their mental function and their physiological capabilities, the almost complete lack of psychological readiness to work independently, ignorance of the general rules of its organization.

Self-study is meant not only to master every discipline, but also to develop skills of self-study work in the scientific and professional work, the ability to take responsibility, to solve the problem, to find constructive solutions, to escape from crisis. According to the new educational paradigm, regardless of specialization and the nature of any budding professional should possess the fundamental knowledge, professional skills and abilities of its activity profile, experience and creative research to address new challenges, experiences and social evaluation. The latter two of education was formed in self-study. Independent work completed for all of the other types of academic work. In addition, independent study has educational value: it creates independence, not only as a set of skills, but also as a character trait, which plays an important role in the personality structure of modern specialists of high qualification.

Modern technologies of development of individual creative thinking are supported by self-study. Criteria of quality university education radically change, instead of the amount of knowledge education is intended to develop the ability to self-learning, creative thinking, to support innovative behavior and motivational personality structure, designed to find adequate responses to the challenges of rapidly changing economic, social, cultural and political environment responsibly construct the social world. The problem is relevant to the modern university as an orientation toward an active and independent learning activities of students which becomes the basis for the preparation of modern professionals. Today the «cognitive independence» has become the subject of research of a number of authors (V.F. Torosiyan), due to the fact that it is the quality of the integrated personality, which is characterized by the need and ability of students in the study and practice to master the knowledge and techniques activities, willingness to solve production problems, the ability to determine the purpose of the activity, correct it, and to use the acquired knowledge and techniques of cognitive activity for self-education and professional activities.

The literature:

1. Torosian V.F. Cognitive independence of technical college students as an integrated quality of the individual // Proceedings of the VIII International Conference «Innovations in Science and Education – 2010» dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the founding of the university. – Kaliningrad: KSTU, 2010. Part 3. S. 293 – 295.