IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPETENCE APPROACH IN HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH THE PRISM OF GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES

Abstract

The article characterizes competence and analyzes the experience of the world implementation of the competence approach to education and its consequences. It was revealed that recently the international scientific community has agreed to interpret competencies as abilities or capabilities. Competence is considered a general ability based on knowledge, creative skills, and inclinations. Therefore, three spheres or components of a teacher's competence are distinguished: 1) knowledge, 2) professional skills, 3) dispositions, including beliefs, attitudes, values, and obligations, oriented towards specific pedagogical actions, etc. It is noted that mathematics as a school subject has sufficient potential for the formation and development of those qualities that a person needs for success. The implementation of the competence approach in mathematics lessons provides: revealing the role and possibilities of mathematics in the knowledge and description of real processes and phenomena of reality, ensuring the awareness of mathematics as a universal language of natural sciences and an organic component of general human culture; the development of logical, critical and creative thinking of students, the ability to clearly and reasonedly formulate and express their judgments; students' mastery of the mathematical language, their understanding of mathematical symbols, mathematical formulas and models as such, which make it possible to describe the general properties of objects, processes and phenomena; formation of the ability to logically substantiate and prove mathematical statements, apply mathematical methods in the process of solving educational and practical problems, use mathematical knowledge and skills during the study of other educational subjects; development of skills to work with a textbook, to work out mathematical texts, to search for and use additional educational information, to critically evaluate the obtained information and its sources, to highlight the main points, to analyze, to draw conclusions, to use the information obtained in personal life; formation of the ability to assess the correctness and rationality of solving mathematical problems, justify statements, recognize logically incorrect reasoning, make decisions in conditions of incomplete, redundant, accurate and probabilistic information.