The reason for writing this article is sharing the results of the authors work experience as a high school lecturer. In author’s opinion, combining pedagogical skills and knowledge of psychology is vital for realization of the high school goals. The article gives a critical view of today’s higher education and offers some ways to alter its inconsistencies through the personality approach and using psychological activity motivating methods. Among them are: the method of watching, reinforcement and psychological consultation.

In the Russian Federation, there is evidently a growing interest both from government and society to the problems of patriotic education of citizens. Various aspects of spiritual, moral and military-patriotic education are under active discussion in the research literature as well as theoretical and practical issues of upbringing of the young generation. This article describes the experience in teaching History and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Pedagogical University.

The article describes experience of implementing language-training projects for staff training in Novosibirsk institutions of higher education to participate in the programs of international academic mobility. The author discusses effectiveness and results of the projects, outlines their problem zones and difficulties of implementation.

In this article the author describes the development and implementation of the experimental program "Travelling around English-Speaking Countries" in the course of humanitarian training of school students in teaching a foreign language in the modern system of additional foreign-language education. She contributes to the development of pupils’ abilities to work independently, to activization of their productive abstract thinking and the highest intellectual processes.

The article is devoted to the problem of creating and conducting a language quest in the institution of additional education of children. A retrospective analysis of the development of the system of additional education of children demonstrates the principles of extra-school (additional) education of children: assistance in socialization, teaching skills in a form that will be interesting, the moral upbringing of the child.

In the article several principles of teaching schoolchildren, who are non-Russian speakers, different disciplines at secondary school are described. The author also reveals some areas for school teacher professional development while teaching non-Russian speakers non-philological subjects. The students referred to in the article are carriers of not only another language, but also of a different culture, which must be taken into account when working with them. Subject teachers should master socio-cultural competence.

Currently a huge number of adults are undertaking efforts to continue their education in the language direction, beginning study foreign languages in the adulthood. Actual problems of motivation in the teaching of foreign languages for the adult audience of students are considered under this article. The teacher's experience of working with the students of the intensive language training courses and the Presidential program is generalized; the main reasons that complicate the learning process are identified and analyzed.