Actuality of the competency approach in the modern educational process and in the pedagogical heritage of V.O. Sukhomlynskyi

Abstract

The purpose of modern education is the formation of a student's ability and desire to study throughout his whole life, to work in a team, the ability to self-change and to self-develop on the basis of the reflexive self discipline. The competent approach that underlies the Concept of the New Ukrainian School, the State Standard of Primary School, allows to effectively address these tasks using modern pedagogical technologies.
The school should become a non-preparatory stage for life, but the life itself; to promote the formation of personality, as the creator and designer of the person’s own life.
To the important conditions that promote the full development of children, V. Sukhomlinsky submits the correspondence of teaching methods, the structure of the lesson, all organizational and psychological and pedagogical elements of the educational purpose of the lesson, its educational and developmental tasks and the content.
The peculiarity of the use of interactive methods is that the educational process takes place under the condition of the constant active interaction of students and the directional, corrective role of the teacher. It is co-education, mutual learning (collective, group, studying in cooperation), where the student and teacher are equal partners of this process.
During the interactive learning, students learn to be democratic, to communicate with others, to think creatively, to make informed decisions, to cultivate empathy and tolerance towards others. The use of active forms of interaction greatly contributes to the development of a competent approach to learning.
One of the key values of a particular activity is the development of creative and critical thinking, the acquisition of experience and the research tools, the independent seeking for information, that is, putting the emphasis not so much on knowledge, but on acquiring students a positive experience through an independent work.
By directing the educational process to the formation of vital and substantive competences in students, in accordance with the state standards of elementary education, the teacher acquires the skills of the practical use during the training. These competencies give the child the opportunity to navigate the society and solve the problems that he or she faces.
The article is devoted to the relevance of the competence approach in contemporary Ukrainian education in comparison with the classical pedagogy V. Sukhomlynsky.