Pedagogical Class as a Means of High School Students’ Professional Self-Determination
The relevance of the article lies in the necessity of guiding students to conscious choice of profession and improvement of pre-professional training of pedagogical orientation. The study aims to identify the possibilities of pedagogical classes in the educational process as a means of high school students’ professional selfdetermination. The article deals with the emergence of pedagogical classes in public education, scientific research into the activities of pedagogical classes in the modern situation and issues of professional self-determination, identifies the educational tasks that are designed to solve the profile pedagogical class in modern education. The article presents the experience of P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky Lipetsk State Pedagogical University in organizing pedagogical classes in schools in Lipetsk and Lipetsk region and attracting graduates to the profession of teacher. The article also defines the content of psychological and pedagogical training of high school students in the disciplines “Pedagogy”, “Fundamentals of Psychology”, “Project activity”, “Fundamentals of leadership activity” and forms of pedagogical interaction. Preliminary results of the organization of activities in pedagogical classes are summarized.