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It's a common knowledge that the society and time we live in are characterized by continuous technological change and most of employee skills may become outdated fairly rapidly. Therefore, an enterprise that aspires to be successful and respond quickly to changes in the market environment should pay great attention to training programs of the employees. In this regard, it is important to develop guidelines and recommendations to improve the quality of mentoring as the system involving Mentoring Council, enterprise executives, mentors and training centers for mentors. The paper is intended to provide theoretical and practical contribution to training students of technical universities, as well as young personnel starting their career and experienced executives.

The urgency of the research is due to the fact that health of school-age children in Russia is deteriorating. The development of health culture has become an integral part of students' general cultural development. The purpose of this article is to reveal the potential of "Technology" as a school subject for the development of students' health culture. The activity approach is the leading one to the study of this problem. The activity approach takes into account students' individual characteristics, as well as the role and significance of certain activities and forms of communication, in order to suggest ways for the development of students' health culture. This article analyzes the subject matter of "Technology", which aims at health protection of students. In this regard, the article can be helpful to education workers responsible for health preservation of the younger generation.

The article dwells upon the methodological and technological aspects of the project to develop a framework of qualifications of the Ural region, which concerned with some of the features of the procedure of doing research, as well as the development of diagnostic tools. The work presents the methods of the processing of data collected during the interviews with educational institutions in order to build "an educational qualification net", namely the determination of the adequacy of the choice of the selected descriptors, the correctness of their formulation and the clarification of the contents; the determination of correlating between the importance of assessment of training results according to selected descriptors and the completeness of their formation in educational institutions of different educational levels; the identification of the views of experts on the quality characteristics of training results in educational levels, in accordance with the selected descriptors.

Actuality of the studied problem is stipulated by the fact that the learning activity is the leading one for pupils and it defines development of main cognitive particularities of evolving personality. As the result of this activity becomes formation of cognitive motives, research skills, subjectively new knowledge and ways of activity for pupils. Purpose of this study is to define more significant in pedagogical relation research skills of junior pupils in context of their interconnections with universal learning activities. In the experiment, there were involved 270 people: pupils and teachers of elementary school and also students acquiring profession of elementary school teachers. As the experimental area there became general education schools №81 and №32, gymnasium №37 in Kazan city of Russian Federation Tatarstan Republic.

One of the urgent contemporary educational problems, solving of which is important for foreign language teaching and learning is improving listening comprehension skills as it helps to develop communicative competence of foreign language learners. The aim of the article is to discuss the importance of using linguistic findings in the process of teaching foreign language listening comprehension. Thus, the leading approach to research the problem of the article is the linguistic one. It helps to show the peculiarities of the speech perception process in connection with the type of the language; these peculiarities should be taken into consideration when developing listening comprehension teaching techniques and programs. The article illustrates this approach with the findings on the perception peculiarities of the English words and sentences. The findings are discussed in terms of their implication in foreign language teaching.

The purpose of article is to justify the necessity of tolerant educational space creation at elementary school as condition of non-violence position education of elementary school pupils. Essential characteristics of pedagogical ensuring education of non-violence position among elementary school pupils are revealed in the article. The features of tolerant educational space creation as conditions of non-violence position education among elementary school pupils in teaching and educational process at elementary school are revealed. Materials of the article can be useful for tutors and teachers of elementary schools, and also for the researchers dealing with problems of non-violence pedagogics.

The purpose of the article is to develop astructural-functional model of corporate training of technical specialists in mentoring in the conditions of modernproduction. The leading method is modeling, allowing consideration of this issue as task-oriented and organized process for improving the professional, common cultural competences, and for formation of special competences ofcompany specialists, that they will need to effectively carry out the mentoring activities. The structural-functionalmodel of corporate training of technical specialists in carrying out mentoring in modern production includes objective, methodological, content-related, organizational and procedural and efficiency components.

The purpose of this article is to research a problem of diagnostics of educational activity efficiency quality increase in professional educational institutions. Presented article shows a technique of diagnostics of educational processes quality on the basis of educational activity results. The concept of general quality management (TQM) acts as the basis of the presented work. It provides the development and continuous improvement of educational activity quality. Quality indicators of educational process and methods of their estimation allow carrying out diagnostics of educational activity and they are given in the article. This article is intended for teachers, researchers, heads of the educational institutions dealing with issues of assessment and improvement of education quality.

The modern condition of mentoring, which revived its traditions in conditions of information technology and intellectualization of modern enterprises is presented in the article. The meaning of such notions as a coach, mentor, intern, mentoring activities, corporate training, mentors and trainees professional cooperation peculiarities is revealed, selected types of mentoring on the content of activities and time characteristics are outlined and mentoring benefits are identified. The scope of the article?s results application covers the practice of mentors corporate training, practice of mentors and trainees interaction, as well as the results obtained can be used in the development of modern provisions on mentoring.

The article is focused on the theoretical justification of types and forms of specialists? corporate education in modern enterprises, and on the development of their classification at the local, scale, time purpose peculiarities of which are disclosed in the presented types and forms of corporate training. Their kinds and forms selection in corporate training process is resulted from socio-economic and organizational-pedagogical conditions of enterprises to implement their staff training. This article also reveals the main point of such corporate education models as problem-oriented, complementary, displacing, innovative, personality-oriented, informational-consultative, metacognitive, multiplication, leader, corporate education and corporate competition models, which exist in corporate training practice.

The article is aimed to develop a model of pedagogical conditions of a binary approach to optimize control and diagnostic functions in teaching "General pedagogy" to students. A leading approach in the development of this model is binary approach, different from traditional and offering a fundamentally new strategy for solving problems of guaranteed quality of education. The article considers the structure and content of a pedagogical condition a binary approach model to optimization of control and diagnostic functions in teaching "General pedagogy" for students. The materials of this article have a practical importance in development and use of a test control system and self-control of students ' knowledge using ICT, as well as packets of control and diagnostic tasks and assignments for students studying "General pedagogy".

The purpose of the paper is to substantiate theoretically and experimentally the model of integration of environmental and vocational training, which determines the way of formation of eco-vocational consciousness of students, future specialists. The leading method of research of this problem is modeling, which enables to consider this problem as a process of purposeful formation of eco-vocational consciousness of a specialist. The paper presents the model of integration of ecological and vocational training with the aim to form an eco-vocational consciousness of a specialist in a modern mega polis. Factors and conditions for the formation of a specialist's eco-vocational consciousness are revealed; an algorithm for implementing this model has been developed

The purpose of the study is to reveal a method that will help arrange creative mathematical problems for the development of creative competences of the basic school students. The main method here is modeling of creative mathematical problems taking into account the complexity levels of the tasks in accordance with the systemic scale and the requirements for the formulation of creative tasks in basic school. The article presents author's approaches to the differentiation of creative mathematical tasks for basic school students in accordance with the systemic scale, which were formed by adaptation of creative problem solutions classified in terms of their degree of difficulty and the quality of the obtained results, considered in the theory of inventive problems solving

As a result of the research conducted by the authors they worked out several author's interdisciplinary courses, among them a special place is taken by the course "Mathematics in Natural sciences" for the classes of the natural-science profile. It is suggested in it to consider mathematical questions when applying them to the material of related disciplines both through the study of theoretical material and in the process of solving problems, including the open type, and involving schoolchildren in the project of interdisciplinary activity. Practical use of the interdisciplinary courses allows to see the achievements of meta-subject results by schoolchildren and the successes of students both in mathematical preparation, expressed by high marks on the subject, and related disciplines, which indicates the improvement of mathematical education quality of students who received training using the proposed methodology.

The article describes the author's methodology. The main feature of the developed course is the inclusion of various organizational forms and diverse materials aimed at sustaining schoolchildren's interest towards mathematics, enabling them to deal with advanced level mathematical problems and developing their curiosity and creativity. The course "Developmental Mathematics" that is presented in this article has been empirically tested since 2008.

The developing countries are hiding potential risk in many considerations (e.g. migration). The study is focused on the lower secondary school pupils' knowledge about developing ountries. Costs and benefits associated with the problematic of the study are in the presentation of pupils' knowledge about developing countries. It provides not only identification of countries on the map, but also the real problems of developing countries. The partial aims were to examine the influence of gender, residence, grade level and attitudes to geography on the knowledge about developing countries. The sample size consisted of 158 Czech lower secondary school pupils. The data were evaluated by the methods of descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that only the grade level influenced the knowledge level, the gender a residence had not got an influence on knowledge. The correlation between knowledge and attitudes was slightly positive and significant. The results are discussed and i

The article shows that in the context of the overestimation the role of natural and technical education by modern society, it is clearly underestimated importance of humanities education. Paper is aimed at creating prerequisites for the study of contemporary place in science of humanities and culture in general. As the leading methodological approaches of this study the author uses the cultural approach and the principle of determinism. The article substantiates the proposition that without an understanding of human nature and the sake of what a man lives on the earth, the solution of all other problems and technical quests are meaningless. In other words, the humanity stands as a mainstay of human in culture. As a result of the systematization and generalization of facts, the author offers a new universal metasubjected approach in cognition of the social reality that allows evaluating the possibilities and prospects of the global human survival.

The relevance of the research stems from dissimilarities between domestic and foreign experiences of mentoring and coaching in corporate education and training related to the methods and techniques aimed not only at transmitting mentor?s professional experience to young professionals but also at identifying and developing mentees? potential, and supporting their careers. In this regard, the researchers tried to identify adaptive educational and training potential of international mentoring experience under the current conditions. The most valid approach to study this issue is an integrative approach that involves integration of domestic and international techniques and their constructive implementation into the Russian corporate training system with regard to best traditions existing in this country, realities and requirements of modern industry. The paper considers the features and characteristics of the following techniques used in international mentoring and coaching: coaching (unlo

The submitted article deals with the theoretic and practically-oriented aspects of planning and implementing the modular competence-based curriculum in higher professional institutions. Particularly, the authors submit the structure of the modular competence-based curricula, develop the principles of their projecting, describe the technology of introducing the modular competence-based curriculum in higher professional institutions. The developed structure and technology can be applied in the professional institutions, further training and retraining centers in the process of core curriculum drafting, additional vocational programs and working programs as well.

The article is aimed at the model development of vocational, high school and manufacture integration in the regional system of vocational education. The basic approach to the structural-functional model development of vocational, high school and manufacture integration in the regional system of vocational education is an integrative one, taking into consideration the integrated system ?vocational school-high school-manufacture? components in their unity and cooperation, giving it the integrity and structural and functional stability. Structural-functional model of vocational, high school and manufacture integration in the regional system of vocational education includes functional-target, organizational-structural, content, process and result components.

The study contributed to develop a competency model of a modern teacher and the algorithm of its development. Investigation into the idealistic understanding of certain competencies and their relevancy by the university undergraduates who participated in the assessment of competencies significance, revealed the following student's attitude: they believe that subject content knowledge and methodological competencies are number ones in their future job. There are a large number of instructional and related activities to be performed by the teacher inside and outside the classroom. In their opinion the educational competency associated with developing a child's personality, talents and etc., was the second in order of importance, whereas in real teaching practice this competency was determined as the first in order of importance followed by reflective competency, and the third place was given to subject and methodical competencies.