Learning through projects and research to develop engineering skills

Abstract

In the VUCA-world, there is a gap between the content ofschool science education and the level of modern science andtechnology. Most developed countries know they have to transform school education, primarily through ensuring the active position of the participants of educational process by means of research and project-based learning.However, it is necessary to solve the issues of organizing notonly individual, but also group research and projects, not only inthe framework of extracurricular additional education, but alsoin the course of lesson activities in natural science, the volumeof which is more than 700 hours (grades 5-9). Systematic organization of educational and research and project activities requiresthe development of a mechanism for integrating models of stageby-stage development of the norms of project and research activities by students of different age groups into pedagogical practice,building a meaningful relationship between classroom and extracurricular activities.An effective model of such organization is the model of aschool-technopark, which integrates the space for obtainingnew knowledge and their technologization.The Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs has accumulated extensive experience in applying the approach of learning through projects and research to in-depth study of natural sciences in the format of additional education based on the cases of real high-tech companies. However, in conditions of intense competition for personnel with key competencies, it is necessary to form mechanisms for transferring this experience to the sphere of general education.