Project Method as a Provisional Concept of Technological Improvement in Students of a New Ukrainian School

The article reveals the possibilities of the project method as a pedagogical technology for the modernization of the content of labor education of secondary school students. The main stages of the implementation of the project method in the content of labor training have been studied, the methodological features of the organization of students’ educational activities in the conditions of the knowledge paradigm and the relevant standards of education have been characterized.Person-oriented, activity approach, competence training, formation of subject competence ‒ these and other issues of modernization of the educational process through the organization of project activities of schoolchildren have, over the past decades, become the subject of attention of a large number of scientists.Traditionally, on-the-job training is aimed only at the formation of technical and technological knowledge and skills in students, which are inherent in the main types of production activities and industry as a whole. Instead, in the conditions of project activities, students not only study technical and technological processes, but also perform activities of a creative nature, which takes into account the individual characteristics and abilities of schoolchildren. So, in particular, the project method allows to develop competences and inherent cross-cutting skills (soft skills), to take into account the individual abilities of students as much as possible, to construct the educational process independently or with the help of a teacher, which lays the foundations of an activity approach in education.The article defines the main features that appear in the work of a teacher of labor education during the organization of project activities of schoolchildren in the New Ukrainian School. It is substantiated that the method of projects in the students’ study of technologies allows the implementation of the basic concepts of the New Ukrainian School: the development of competences, cross-cutting skills, develops research competence.