Project technology as a means of forming key competencies in the educational process

Abstract

The modern system of education has its goals not only in the training of specialists with the necessary professional skills and knowledge, but also the development of the abilities for creative thinking and inculcation of institution for continuous learning and self-education. Such rethinking of the requirements for higher and secondary education is due to the crisis of technical education in Kazakhstan in the whole world, due to increase in the science intensity of industrial technologies. The article is devoted to one of the ways of achieving this goal, using of the project method in the educational process. The work analyzes the goals and objectives of the project activity, its place in the educational process and the problems of implementing project training in higher and secondary schools. Even in foreign countries, which have many years of experience in the use of educational technology project, there is a considerable amount of methodological problems which follows from the literature review of the work presented.