Identifying of educational environment contributing to the formation of cartographic competence of high school students
The article shows the ways of improving cartographic training of university students through the use of professionally-oriented learning technology mapping disciplines. Implementation of professionally-oriented technology training in order to create cartographic competence provided a set of pedagogical conditions: diagnostic goal setting, selection and structuring of the content of the material; selecting of the forms, methods and means of education; developing of a system for monitoring the quality of students' cartographic training; practical application of professionally-oriented technology training; motivating of students to assimilate the content of the material in the study of mapping disciplines. The effectiveness of professionally-oriented training was tested during the experimental work, which was attended by students of first, second and third year in «Geography», «Geography with additional specialty», «Soil Science», «Nature», and others in Orel State University. The author based on the analysis of experimental work argue that compliance with the above pedagogical conditions ensures the formation of cartographic competence of university students.