THE MODEL OF ECOVOLUNTEER ACTIVITY IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
The article presents the results of the study, the purpose of which was to establish the effectiveness of the proposed model of the introduction of eco-volunteer activities on student performance indicators, the experience of improving the effectiveness of the educational process through eco-volunteer activities. The organization of the research and testing of the model were carried out using an integrated approach in the activities of eco-volunteers of students of secondary vocational education of the branch of the Stavropol State Pedagogical Institute in the city of Essentuki and the National Park «Kislovodsk». The model of eco-volunteer activity was based on the conceptual idea of a balanced combination of practical, educational and creative blocks, including a flexible system of targeted and complementary activities. Each of the blocks was focused on the formation of general literacy and culture through the implementation of socially useful activities and the integration of knowledge, skills and abilities acquired during it into the educational process of an educational institution. A set of research methods corresponding to the target guidelines (theoretical and comparative analysis, pedagogical observation and experiment, methods of mathematical statistics) and the representativeness of the sample of participants in the pedagogical experiment integrated into an adequate time frame are applied. The results of the study, which can have practical application in the form of the proposed model implemented in the educational process, are summarized.