Project activities of bachelor students of a pedagogical university as a condition for preparing schoolchildren’s research activities

The paper discusses current issues of training a professional teacher, a successful organizer of schoolchildren’s research activities. The material is presented in terms of new standards. The author discusses innovative forms of educational process organization at university and school – the creation of a single educational space based on the principles of science and education integration. The main condition for schoolchildren’s research potential development and successful teachers’ development is the project activity of students and schoolchildren in the framework of cooperation. A structural model of network interaction between the Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University, schools № 151, 129, 173 of Nizhny Novgorod, the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad) and the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) has been developed. This model is a key factor contributing to the solution of the problem of high-quality training of a prospective teacher majoring in Biology who will be able to organize students’ research activities and develop their creative activity. The experience of the development and testing of various joint scientific, social and creative projects is shown. The data of the experiment are presented, which speak about the success of the events held as part of the implementation of the project technology.