The process of modernization of pedagogical education in the context of All-Russian tendencies is considered in the article. Models of teachers' training that exist in Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPSU) are presented. The experience of realization of multi-level education is summarized; the efficiency of existing practices of teachers’ training in Russian universities is discussed. Special attention is paid to the analysis of system changes in pedagogical education in Russian Federation.

The theme of the publication is actualized by the understanding of the need to maintain a balance between the introduction of various kinds of innovations in the process of interaction between educational institutions and the preservation of traditions. The materials of the article are aimed at understanding the experience of interaction between secondary and higher education in the context of solving the problem of improving the quality of education, enhancing the development of students.

Problem solution of coordination and consistency of scientific research in the field of education is highly correlated to actualization of research areas. Common practice of science and routine educational process interaction hardly reflects not only modern education needs but developing modern society, and often appears to be continuation of directions and subjects of previous century in its contents.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the results of all-Russian testing works on biology in the 5th grade, in particular, the analysis of the participation of students in the Novosibirsk region. Decrease in the level of performance when passing from the fourth grade (the World around) to the fifth (Biology) both in Russia and in the region, confirms this fact, obtained in other studies. The article considers the factors that influence the results. It highlights the tasks that proved to be difficult for students in the Novosibirsk region, compared with students in Russia.

The article considers the issue of teachers’ professional competency in the formation of universal educational actions. It reveals the content of teachers’ activity in the formation of universal educational actions. The novelty of the article refers to the revealing of the teachers’ readiness level indicators in the formation of universal educational actions.

Keywords: professional competency of teacher, professional standards.

This article presents the results of a study of the organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of cognitive universal educational activities for junior schoolchildren, conducted on the basis of Gymnasium №49 of Tyumen. The article substantiates the choice of conditions conducive to the formation of cognitive universal educational activities, the presence and sufficiency of which is investigated empirically.

The article deals with the problem of conflict in the social component of the educational environment of the university, as space in which the interaction of subjects of higher education.

The article analyzes the contradictions of the narrow specialization of scientists, the commonality and contradictions between science and ideology, which serve to legitimize power. The simplified, linear views of politicians as the reasons for the growing conflict of civilizations within the development of European culture are shown. The substitution of science by science in application to social processes is shown.

The main problem considered in this article is the development of cognitive universal educational activities. The relevance of the topic is related to the necessity for students to develop skills in working with various types of information, the ability for analyzing and transforming it in conditions of rapid knowledge’s updating. This is an essential condition for maintaining competitiveness in the labor marketing the information society. The author proposes an approach to the development of cognitive universal educational activities through the formation of geographical images.

The article deals with the problem of ensuring the innovative development of the state, focuses on the early identification and development of talented young people, providing them with support by professional educational institutions. The authors acquaint with practical experience of identification, support and training of gifted youth in educational institutions of secondary professional education of the Novosibirsk region. The criteria of classification of the manifestation of talent and giftedness are investigated.