We present our scientific study of the optimization of evaluation system of professional development of pedagogical employees. This article contains the issues of the increasing role of practical orientation and readiness of graduates. We examine the system of evaluation of professional and personal competencies of vocational education teachers. The analysis of optimization of human resources of the educational institution, the systematization and adjustment of previously obtained knowledge are described.

Тhe article is devoted the analysis of problems of educating gifted child in the context of modern requirements to professional and personal qualities of teacher which must possess the row of competences under the Professional Standard of Teacher.

Keywords: Professional Standard of Teacher, competences, gifted child.

In the article we analyze the experience of the Great Britain universities in ensuring equal educational opportunities of migrant students. Special attention is given to the structure of English universities and the way the pedagogical support of socialization and individualization processes of this group of students is organized.

Keywords: migrant students, equal educational opportunities, socialization, individualization.

In the article we show the analysis of the scientists’ views on metadisciplinarity in education. Thanks to the given analysis the general phenomenological characteristics are selected, and the justification of value of metadisciplinary contents in modern education is given.

Keywords: metadisciplinarity, modern education, metaactivity, metadiscipline, metaknowledge, metaskill, universal learning activities.

The article is devoted to the problem of formation and development of students’ cognitive competence, the analysis of application of various means of educational material that help students to be integrated into productive cognitive activity connected with interpretation of information through its reasoning.

Keywords: cognitive activity, cognitive competence, cognitive visualization, didactic visual means.

The system of modern knowledge controlling includes the black box model, but the connection of didactics with this model is not discussed enough in pedagogical and methodological literature. The purpose of this article is to describe the application of the black box theory categories on the example of the most prevalent today methods of control.

Keywords: knowledge controlling, model, black box, testing, adaptive control of knowledge.

In the article we analyze the results of sociological research on personal perceptions and future claims of high school students living in Novosibirsk. The results of the research in 2016 are compared with those researched in 2006.

Keywords: professional and personal self-determination, life perspective, high school students, social and life aspirations, teenagers.

The article shows the ecological culture as a holistic phenomenon. Its content covers all the systems of culture: the motivational-behavioral, emotional-spiritual, intellectual and rational. The development of ecological culture includes the interrelated processes: the formation of the adequate ideas of reality, the growth of self-consciousness, the realization of the idea of integrity in the aspects of being, knowledge, value.

Keywords: integrity, the system of culture, ecological culture of personality, reality, modus of consciousness

The article considers organization of experimental work on the introduction of adapting and developing strategy of school students health care as a part of consolidated municipal educational collaboration of healthcare workers, teachers and parents.

Keywords: adapting and developing strategy of school students health care, adaptation, an individual style of teaching process, environment friendly educational system.

The article covers correlation between common didactics, didactics of a subject and teaching techniques through answers and questions: What to teach? How to teach in the current specifications with health maintenance of school students? Theoretical aspect of the defenitions "teaching techniques" and "teaching techniques oriented to health maintenance of school students during the educational process is observed".