The importance of elective subjects



THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTIVE SUBJECTS

D. Zh. Sakenov, E.A. Schneider, S.A. Schneider

Pavlodar state pedagogical institute, Kazakhstan

College of Transport and Communications, Kazakhstan Innovative University of Eurasia, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan

Recent economic and social conditions of life presents the new requirements for the training of students, they need to be guided well in education, to think creatively, to have communication skills, be able to make pedagogical decisions and take responsibility for them. Today, the country needs a new formation specialists capable of creative and professional solutions for today's practical level, significant tasks of training and education with professional competencies in the fields of education, research, management, teaching and learning activities that can creatively implement a productive career in education and training organizations.

An academic value and specific of the educational program of students find a reflection in the catalogue of elective disciplines, that gives students possibility of choice of own educational trajectory, receipt of the professional skills and competences, oriented to the sphere of activity of education taking into account the necessities of society, economy, labour-market and expectations of employers.

Elective subjects have great potential in the implementation of the professional education : they are mobile, create a situation of choice for students, encourage them to make decisions , analysis of results , a deliberate choice of the future professional path. Currently, gained sufficient theoretical and empirical material on specific aspects of content of the development of training students (Sakenov, D. Zh, Kushnir, Y.V., Kenenbaeva, M.A, Tleulesova, A.Sh., Mane, L. Miville, Changming Duan, Roberta L. Nutt, Charles A. Waehler, Lisa Suzuki, M. Carole Pistole, Patricia Arredondo, Michael Duffy, Brenda X. Mejia, Melissa Corpus, etc.), research the professional activity of students (Valeeva, I.A, Beregova, I.P., Kondaurova, I.G., Igonina, T.B., Sakenov, D.Zh, Kushnir, Y.V., Monthei, C.E., etc.), the design innovation in the content of the training of students (Dehler, G.E., Welsh, M.A. and Lewis, M.W., Gideonse, H.D., Schroedel, J.G., Watson, D. and Ashmore, D.H., Aiken, J., Prue, A. J. and Hasazi, S.B., etc., that creates a scientific base for the development of the content of elective courses as a way of the professional training of students. However, as the analysis of psycho- pedagogical and methodological literature, the development of the catalog of elective subjects remain outside the field of modern scientific research, thus not taken into account their specificity compared with the basic disciplines. Lack of modern theoretical elaboration of the scientific problem led to a low level of effectiveness of elective subjects in the educational practices of modern higher education. Thus, the contradiction arises between uncertainty pedagogical foundations of the development of its content elective courses based on the specifics of the training of students and the need to implement the catalog of elective subjects in the practice of training students.

This contradiction allows us to formulate the research problem. What are the pedagogical basis for the development of its content elective courses as a means of training students? The need to address this problem, the aim of study: theoretical basis and development of technology for the development of its content elective courses as a means of training students. The results and discussions. A set of ideas and provisions which represent themselves as methodological bases of the solution of the research problem is the first and its main characteristic. Leading component of designing the content of elective courses in the specialized training is the experience of creative design activity of students. We can formulate the definition of «The development f the catalogue of elective subjects». This category refers us as the design and detailing of the professional knowledge of the students, their experience of practical and creative activities in order to ensure the integrity and appropriateness of elective subjects. Integrity will be determined through correspondence and relationship goals, content and results of the development of elective subjects. In the context of our research technology development directory elective courses is an activity for the development of the content of each of the following modules: explanatory, basic, control and diagnostics.