Psychological and educational opportunities of achievement potential actualization technology of Master students
In the conditions of modern Russia there are real opportunities for young people to be engaged in innovative activities already at the stage of training. The demand for the quality of specialists' training increases; they should have a set of social, personal, psychological competences allowing them to be included in innovative activities quickly enough. The process of joining the innovation activity needs certain support. One of the directions of this work is psychological and educational support. The analysis of the research carried out for a number of years at the Faculty of Psychology of Tomsk State University allows to allocate the following psychological deficits, characteristic of contemporary youth: low level of the communicative culture; low level of inner motivation; lack of goal-setting skills; low level of tolerance to uncertainty; low level of flexibility; low level of trust in oneself. Special attention deserves the fact that young people who have a positive experience of participation in innovative competitions also express such psychological deficits as lack of formation of self-presentation and team work skills. In this regard, there is a special urgency of the problem of minimizing the existing socio-psychological deficits and formation of relevant skills. One of the variants of psycho-educational technology is developed by the authors of this paper. It is the technology of Achievements Potential Actualization. The purpose of the technology is to increase the level of personal efficiency of young people. This technology is aimed at the development of such competences as the ability to take the initiative including the situations of uncertainty; the ability to make non-standard decisions, to resolve problem situations; the ability of effective communication, mastering the skills of analysis of their activity; the ability to organize their activities and self-organization, ability to manage their emotions, mastering the skills of self-presentation. Psychological-educational technology includes various forms of activities: training, lectures, seminars. The implementation of the technology involves organization of a special method for educational interaction including the technologies widely used in the educational practice: the problem introduction, case-study, discussion, debate, project method. The technology is developed on the modular principle. Modules are independent of each other. Depending on the specifics of the group the content of each module can be modified.