Technologies for the Development of Personal Competitiveness of High School Students

In the article, based on the analysis of scientific developments of domestic scientists, theoretical research and personal pedagogical experience of the authors, the concept of "competitiveness of personality" is revealed from the point of view of the tasks of pedagogy. The effectiveness of the competitive movement for the formation of personal competitiveness of high school students as a separate age category of students is substantiated. Among the competitions of achievements considered in the aspect of competitiveness education and traditionally used in school didactics, two main types are distinguished from the point of view of their form and content: subject Olympiads and contests of creative works. The role of pedagogical technologies as the main practical tool in the process of education in general and education of personal competitiveness in particular is determined. The analysis of pedagogical technologies as organized regular algorithmically constructed sequences of actions of the teacher and students, formed on the basis of pedagogical scientific research and allowing to solve practical problems related to the education of personal competitiveness of high school students. A technological model of educating the personal competitiveness of high school students using the potential of achievement contests has been developed. Within the framework of the model, some interrelated pedagogical technologies and groups of technologies are considered, the development, improvement and application of which is of practical importance for the formation of competitiveness, among which it is necessary to highlight the technology of personal competitiveness education developed by the author through the competitive movement, including a long-term set of measures for the preparation and participation of high school students in the competitive movement; the technology of organizing competitions of achievements in the direction of a more complete their compliance with the competitive realities of life; technology for measuring the competitiveness of high school students and evaluating pedagogical efforts to form competitiveness (diagnostic technology).

personal competitiveness, achievement contests, contest movement, students, high school students, competitiveness cultivation, test of competitiveness, pedagogical technologies, development, model