Pedagogical conditions of forming of future officers' readiness to usage of STEM-technologies in the educational process of higher military educational establishments

Abstract

The article is devoted to defining and substantiation of pedagogical conditions of formation of future officers’ readiness to use STEM technologies in the educational process.
The willingness of future officers to use STEM technologies in the educational process is understood by the authors as an integrated characteristic of the personality, based on the cadets’ awareness of the role of STEM technologies as a significant factor in acquiring professional competences based on interdisciplinary connections and ability to work.
Attention is drawn to the conditionality of the content of future officers’ training in the use of STEM technologies in the educational process as a set of theoretical knowledge, practical skills, different forms of training and interdisciplinary activities specific to their professional activity.
The educational process is reflected in a system of organizational, didactic and other measures aimed at implementing the content of higher education at a certain educational level in accordance with state educational standards.
In view of this, and given the importance of using STEM technologies in today’s educational space, it is emphasized that only the traditional methods can achieve the desired result of the educational process. Therefore, it is advisable to formulate the readiness of future officers to use STEM technologies in the educational process.
The pedagogical conditions of this process are understood to mean circumstances, real situations that are deliberately created in the educational process, the task of which is to ensure its most efficient flow and achieve a specific goal, namely, to form the readiness of future officers to use STEM technologies.
On the basis of the analysis of the psychological and pedagogical literature and with the purpose of improving the process of forming the readiness of future officers to use STEM technologies in the educational process, the following pedagogical conditions have been determined:
formation of professional motivation of future officers with the help of STEM-methods;
introduction of a special course "the use of STEM technologies in a higher military school";
preparation of scientific and pedagogical staff for the application of stem technologies in the educational process;
methodological support for the implementation of the use of stem-technologies in the educational process of higher military educational establishments.