DEVELOPMENT OF A DIDACTIC SYSTEM MODEL FOR ACTIVATING COGNITIVE INDEPENDENCE OF JUNIOR COURSES ENGINEERING STUDENTS

The educational standard of Tomsk Polytechnic University imposes additional to federal, regional, and university requirements: a modern specialist must know how to supplement and to renew knowledge, to carry out a search, to make original decisions, to be a creative personality independently. As a result, there are consequences for organizing the training process such as increasing of the role of independent work, individual training, importance of methodological directivity, generating of creative thinking, initiating of the activity of educational process participants. To realize these requirements, it is necessary to create specified pedagogical conditions. The concept "pedagogical technology" in the educational practice is used at three hierarchically coordinative levels. In accordance with the levels of pedagogical technology we determine three levels of pedagogical conditions: 1. The general pedagogical (general didactic) level. The general pedagogical technology characterizes the integral educational process in this region, in an educational institution and a certain level of training. It means that the pedagogical technology is synonymous to the pedagogical system: it includes the totality of the content, means and methods of instruction, the algorithm of the activity of subjects and objects of the process. These are methodological pedagogical conditions. 2. The object level. The object technology is determined as a "particular procedure", i.e., the totality of methods and means used for realization of the specific content of instruction and training, for example, within the framework of one training discipline. These are systematic pedagogical conditions. 3. The local (modular) level. The local technology is a technology of different parts of the training - cognitive processes, solutions of particular didactic problems (such as technology of independent work, technology of concepts forming). These are content-organizational and motivational-volitional pedagogical conditions. The developed model of a didactic system includes the requirements of government educational standards, education purposes and result, training material, instructor, student and the pedagogical conditions such as: methodological, systematic, content-organizational, motivational-volitional.