The article substantiates the relevance of the problem of giftedness development for the 21st century education. The requirements put forward to a person in modern realities and the factors that define them are revealed. The problem relevanceis analysed on three levels: social-pedagogical, scientific-theoretical, practical-implementing. The tasks of giftedness development, which are outlined in the state educational policy, are presented. Modern approaches to the development of concepts and models of giftedness are studied: integrative, dynamic, humanistic.

The article actualizes the problem of preparing students for the final state certification in foreign languages. A brief analysis of the concept of «control”» is given, and the main features of the control of the formation of speaking skills in the format of USE tasks in English are revealed. The results of the experiment on the section «Speaking» for 1st year students of Volgograd State University were analyzed in order to identify typical errors.

The introduction of digitalization into the education system involves a comprehensive modernization of information technologies, with the help of which both the full administration of the educational institution and the information support of all members of the educational institution, whether they are participants and organizers of the educational process or university researchers, could be carried out.

The rapidly changing educational space within the transition to digital technologies determines the problem area of this study. The main goal of this study covers the identification of the perspectives for the development of the professional competencies of an educator in line with the processes of instability and uncertainty. The subject of this researchconsiders the system of advanced training of college teachers.

Research problem and justification of its relevance. Designing the educational process by a primary school teacher is one of the most significant labor actions according to the Professional Standard for this category of educators. However, many teachers experience difficulties at various stages of design, including the development process stage of educational programs. Purpose of this research: to study, analyze and generalize the advanced pedagogical experience in the design and implementation of the educational process by primary school teachers in the Novosibirsk region.

The main idea of the article is to consider the relevance of the problem ecosystem of education at the present stage of its development, to provide some experience in the field the conceptual apparatus of the Russian and international educators and scholars in the educational ecosystem, to be compared with the concept of "educational environment" and describe the ecosystem of regional resource center for education development "Cooperation and Prospect" in the Novosibirsk region, operating on the basis of Gymnasium No. 3 in Akademgorodok.

The contemporary issue dealt with in this article is how, in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, to integrate and adapt online distance-learning for the education of children with specific special needs. The author, after assessing data from various sources, analyses the pros and cons of an educational medium that has become widespread due to the pandemic. The results of different investigations lead with students, parents and teachers provide the detail for this analysis.

The article raises some of the problems how to cultivate pedagogical skills at music education institutions. The purpose of the article is to survey some social and cultural values of professional orientation that require a detailed methodological monitoring and a topical and meaningful conceptual framework for the process of teaching.

The article deals with the analysis of methods, models, criteria, and indicators of evaluating the efficacy of mentoring activities, and introduces the criterion-evaluation apparatus of efficacy of interaction of a senior employee-mentor and a senior employee-mentee on the crucial issues of management activities within education.

The article examines the problem of advanced training of workers, its impact on the formation of human capital, professional and personal quality of the modern worker. The latter is interpreted in terms of internal and external systemic and social quality as a phenomenon of qualityology - the triune science of the quality of education. The issues of the formation and assessment of educational results and social effects are actualized in relation to the system of advanced professional training of workers.