FORMATION OF STUDENTS’ PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIESAND SOFT-SKILLS DURING THE STUDY OFPHYTOPATHOLOGY

Abstract

A competent specialist must perceive and implement a complex system of acquired knowledge and have the professional thought skills. An important place for the formation of professional competence of the third-year students in the study of phytopathology is given to solving situational problems. The peculiarity of modern education is that it must comply the demands of society, contribute to the comprehensive development of the individual for his or her successful future. The constant growth of the amount of information that needs to be understood and used in practice contributes to the development of the individual abilities, thinking, satisfaction of cognitive needs and requirements. Ideas, theories, technologies are constantly changing and becoming obsolete. Thus, the amount of knowledge that students receive needs constant updating and readiness for future changes throughout life. The modern education system requires a shift of emphasis from the content of education to the result.