In the article we present our teaching experience of implementing metadisciplinary projects in the School of understanding educational system. We describe the potential of metadisciplinary projects in forming and diagnosing communicative events based on the integration lesson and extracurricular activities.

Keywords: School of understanding, communicative event, metadisciplinary project, lesson and extracurricular activities.

In the article we substantiate the necessity of realizing competence-based approach to the teaching training in classroom management that possesses a significant potential for students' professional development and self-actualization.

Keywords: professional competence, homeroom teacher, teaching technologies.

The article summarizes the experience of the subject olympiad "The Teacher of Russian Language and Literature is a Professional". We analyze some problems of pedagogical professionalism that have been found during the implementation of creative tasks and testing by teachers.

Keywords: teacher’s professionalism, teacher’s competence, subject olympiad, Russian language and literature.

Positive orientation of the youth to receive vocational training in a particular institution is determined by the image of the educational organization in many respects. When forming a positive image on the market of educational services, the institution is necessary to identify its strengths and weaknesses to determine priorities and strategies of further work.

Keywords: image of educational institution, vocational education, criterion of positive image, the strategy of image formation.

In the article we describe the experience of the Novosibirsk grammar school No. 16 on the creation and development of innovative educational environment as complex system changes which provide motivational involvement of all participants of educational relations in the productive interaction. It meets the objectives of the Concept of long-term socio-economic development of the Russian Federation until 2020, which indicates the need for a new understanding of the role of education as a strategic resource of society.

Some questions of nurturing responsible behavior of primary school students under the informatization of the educational process are presented in the article. We propose our cycles of classroom hours.

Keywords: education, responsibility, behavior, informatization of the educational process, classroom hour, primary school pupil, parents’ meeting, cooperation.

In the article we discuss some specifics of teaching history. The emphasis is on the need to work with the concepts and terms.

Keywords: history, student, scientific term, analysis, conclusion, self-directed work.

In the article the possibilities to activate cognitive interest in social sciences and humanities are examined. We note the significance of such factors as the content of teaching material, education technologies, organizational forms and a teacher’s personality.

Keywords: cognitive interest, debate, social sciences, ingoing to the epoch, teacher’s personality.

The article is devoted to problems of teaching social science based on personal social experience of students. We analyze some peculiarities of the use of personal social experience of students of secondary school, and describe the way of organizing extracurricular activities which are the conditions for the development of personal social experience.

Keywords: personal social experience of students, social studies, the Federal State Educational Standard, system and activity-based approach, teenagers, socialization of the personality.

In the article we analyze the readiness of high school graduates to carry out the tasks of the examination on the history. We describe the changes in the Uniform graduation examination in recent years, and analyze the different types of tasks and training skills necessary to graduates in carrying out these tasks.

Keywords: Uniform graduation examination, history, result, historical and cultural standard, historical thinking.