Strategic session as a means of organizing students’ activities in the framework of teaching methodological disciplines

Today, changes are taking place in all spheres of human activity, which cannot but have an impact on the training of specialists who are ready to work in the modern world and at the same time respond quickly to the challenges of the 21st century. Therefore, it becomes important not only to improve knowledge, skills and abilities in the professional field, but also to form a wide range of personal skills and qualities that will be useful not only in the professional environment, but also in everyday life. This means that the process of training specialists must be flexibly transformed considering new realities and requirements of society, especially about the training of specialists in the field of education. Today pedagogical universities in Russia produce highly qualified specialists who are ready to work in the modern education system. But despite this, university teachers continue to improve the training process by combining tradition and innovation, as well as by continuously searching for conceptually new means of organizing work. One of these tools may be a strategic session, borrowed from economic practice, but adapted to the education sphere. The use of a strategic session as a means of organizing students’ activities within the framework of teaching methodological disciplines allows students to actively participate in the analysis of various processes, independently develop and make new and informed decisions in certain situations, and this, in turn, contributes not only to deep mastery of the material, but also to the development of the ability to effectively manage time, communicative, organizational and digital skills, leadership and strong-willed qualities, etc. The article provides a step-by-step scheme for planning a strategic session scenario, and provides detailed methodological recommendations for implementing each step with an emphasis on its key aspects. An example of developing a scenario for a strategic session “Digital breakthrough in education” is considered. The results of testing this strategic session are presented. They showed that the ability to independently identify problematic issues and develop innovative approaches to solving them by “immersing” in solving actual practical problems contributes to improving the level of knowledge, developing the skills and abilities of future teachers necessary for their further professional activities.