Teaching of psychology

In this paper authors describe offered course “Basics of communication”: its educational purposes and basic principles are listed, the content of five sections are described, and the forms of control knowledge are indicated. It is analyzed three years’ experience of conducting this discipline at Faculty of Psychology of Tashkent branch of MSU named after M.V. Lomonosov. It is concluded the positive role of the designed course in the professional development of studentspsychologists. It is given a list of promising directions of further improvement course in order to improve its effectiveness in addressing the identified problems of communication and communicative competence at the initial stage of professional socialization of psychologists.

In the article author analyzes the development of psychological culture as an important task of the professionalization of high school psychologists. The following conditions of the psychological culture development are highlighted: professional situations modeling; usage of interactive methods; student-centered approach to learning; organization of environment, which enables communication and collaboration of students, reflection and creativity. The content of the course “Diagnostics of coping with difficult situations” designed by the author is presented. Goals and forms of knowledge control are determined, the content is presented. Practical classes techniques are described in detail: a) methods of interactive work for the assimilation of the theoretical material; b) reacting when there are difficulties in understanding of the educational information; c) the organization of joint activities and communication of students; d) polylogue when analyzing the results used in the workshop techniques; е) ways to increase reflection. The effects of the used methods are discussed. The results of the course based on feedback from students, the dynamics of the perception of a difficult situation are analyzed. The results of the course are related to the criteria of psychological culture

Goal — formation of ideas about future careers and the realization of their students ready for the socio-professional and personal fulfi llment. Th e subjects were 4th year students specializing in the psychology department of work and engineering psychology. Th e study was conducted in the conditions of the special workshop on “Professiografy”. Organization workshop was aimed at providing students a complete orienting basis of planning, organization and execution of professional activities. Th e program included four successively given training phase. Before teach stage of case studies preceded study of scientifi c literature and a discussion. Completion of each task were corrected and discussed. Th is resulted in redefi ning the individual experience of the students own work and to form an idea of the future and the knowing its psychological and professional readiness.