The article focuses on the main trends and conditions of professional and personal development of a future teacher at a university. The relevance of the research is justified by the modern requirements of society to the personality and the level of professionalism of the teacher. The purpose of the study is to analyze the concept of «professional and personal development», to define and experimentally verify the conditions of professional and personal development of a future teacher.

Nowadays, in the globalized world, Standard Chinese has become an influential and universal language, being the second most important language in the world after English. It is not surprising that the number of people wanting to start learning Chinese is growing so rapidly. Since the end of the last century, there have been departments for training Chinese language teachers in Russian universities, where you can study the language in combination with a second subject in order to obtain the profession of a Chinese language teacher.

The article presents the actual issues of teaching listening skill in the foreign language for young learners as a way of boosting their cognitive and moral development. It is scientifically proven that cognitive development and speech activity are interconnected. As phonemic hearing and working memory are the main mechanisms in listening, a teacher needs to devote special learning time to develop these processes.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the problem of teaching the basics of nuclear physics in a school course. Based on the analysis of numerous sources on the school demonstration experiment, the authors consider the use of demonstration equipment in the study of the topic «Elementary particles». The main objectives of the article are to improve the situation with the observation of the properties of alpha particles, that is difficult to reproduce in practice, and to compile methodological recommendations for working with such equipment.

The relevance of the research of the article is due to environmental problems associated with the development of the man-made world based on technologies that negatively affect the environment, changing its structure and balance. The purpose of the article is to develop a method for the formation of professional qualities of students studying the discipline Technosphere safety, which would ensure their eco-oriented approach in the development of safe technologies for the environment. The leading method to investigate this problem is the O. I. test.

The paper under consideration is devoted to the issues of foreign language training of the technical university students — future aviation specialists, as well as the foreign reading skills development. According to the analysis of the scientific literature and comparing both foreign and domestic teaching experience, the intensification and improvement of this process has proved to be extremely relevant within the modern paradigm of higher education, due to the common use of English in the aviation industry.

In school education, the formation of universal educational actions of students is given great importance. At the present stage, quite a lot of research is devoted to this topic, namely: the disclosure of the content of educational activities, the search for effective approaches, methods and means of their development. The purpose of this article is to consider the process of forming school project teams for the implementation of student projects and to assess the impact of this form of interaction on the development of universal educational activities of primary school students.

The article substantiates the importance of integrative organization of students’ academic and research work to fully develop the future linguist as a professional. When studying at the university the student needs to achieve a comprehensive development, including the formation of the ability to independently conduct research work, which is individual and creative in nature. The authors focus on the specifics of the formation of the student’s research competence, on the development of his personal motivation, analytical ability, and critical thinking.

Geography is a complex academic discipline that combines knowledge about nature, population and economy; it considers the surrounding world as a single system. This is the reason for the widespread use of subject, intersubject and metasubject concepts in it. The Federal State Educational Standard for Basic General Education, formulates the requirements for the preparation of students, including their mastery of interdisciplinary concepts, on the basis of which a holistic picture of the world is built.

The article provides a comparative analysis of mental and somatic health assessments, and the subjective well-being of two groups of youth students, one of whom is professionally engaged in sports and the other is not. It was shown that during the period of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, young athletes assessed their well-being lower, students who did not play sports more often showed psychosomatic symptoms.

Keywords: pandemic, youth, subjective well-being, self-esteem of somatic and mental health.