Competency approach to determine the content of VPO

The external, formal and internal content aspects of the modernization of educational activities in SamSTU have been analyzed. The external aspect is unfolded in the program of the development of a basic university. Modernization is reduced to a number of structural transformations and diversification of professional educational programs in order to ensure their competitiveness. The internal, psychological-pedagogical aspect in the program is practically not represented. In any educational process, situations arise which, in the theory of the planned formation of mental actions and concepts, are usually called "situations of a single and urgent action." When starting a new task for himself, the student must orient in it, that is, present the goal of the action, the initial data, the method and means necessary to convert the original data into the required product, the order of conversion, and ways to monitor its progress. But the orienting activity of the student due to objective and subjective reasons is not adequate to the new task. As a consequence, folding views are insufficient to properly solve the problem. A contradiction is formed: an adequate representation is necessary, but it is not. In our opinion, the required orientation should be laid down in lectures. But, often this does not happen. In addition, when starting a new task for himself, the student is forced to use the whole complex of psychological possibilities: to learn, to perceive, to present, to understand, etc. But due to the fact that the task is new, there is not enough available capacity and their operational transformation is required in connection with new circumstances.

educational program, learning, orienting activity, educational activity, mental action, concept