Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The article justifies the methodological and organizational conditions for using business games in the profes- sional training of future fire protection specialists. The article discusses the types of business games (simulation, organizational-activity, and role-playing games), the stages of designing and conducting a lesson, and the typical difficulties of implementation (scripting, teacher preparation, resource provision, and results evaluation). This article presents the results of testing the business game at the Ural Institute of State Fire Service of EMERCOM of Russia. It proposes criteria for evaluating students’ actions (decision efficiency, tactical soundness, quality of team interaction, and reflection) and shows how the indicators changed as a result of the lesson. The article concludes that integrating business games into tactical, specialized, and managerial training is advisable, pro- vided the described conditions are met. The study aims to substantiate the methodological and organizational conditions for using business games in firefighters’ professional training and to present the results of testing the game in a university setting. Methodology and research methods: the study was conducted within the framework of competence-based and activity-based approaches, drawing on the ideas of practice-oriented and simulation- based learning. The methods of theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific sources, modeling (designing a business game scenario), pedagogical observation, expert assessment of students’ actions, analysis of the results of tasks before/after the game, questionnaires/reflective sheets (if available) were used. The empirical part was implemented on the basis of the Ural Institute of State Fire Service of EMERCOM of Russia.

Annotation: The article is devoted to the problem of professionally oriented English language teaching based on media projects. The media project is considered as an effective tool for the forming of a student’s foreign language communicative competence in combination with the development of direct professional competencies. The article provides examples of projects that are used in the practice of teaching English to students of the training area 42.03.01 Advertising and public relations. The empirical study was based on a survey of students at Nizhny Novgorod Dobrolyubov State Linguistic University regarding the effectiveness of a media project. The authors of the article conclude that the digital media project promotes the natural integration of all the skills needed by a PR specialist with knowledge of a foreign language. The implementation of such projects allows students to master the tools of the 21st century, develop critical thinking, as well as increase motivation and engagement and turn the process of learning a foreign language into active creativity.

Annotation: The article is devoted to the analysis and generalization of the experience of advanced training for labor (tech- nology) teachers in robotics in the context of updating the content of technological education and introducing a modular approach to the school subject “Labor (technology)”. The article analyzes and summarizes a sig- nificant amount of empirical data on advanced training courses for teachers in robotics. The study developed an advanced training course for teachers, which was used as the basis for a pedagogical experiment. Based on the summarized experience, a methodology for conducting advanced training courses for labor (technology) teachers was developed and tested, which allows for the structuring of the training program for real educational organizations. Methodological recommendations have been developed for conducting advanced training for labor (technology) teachers in robotics. As one of the empirical sources of data, the study used the author’s long-term personal participation in advanced training courses on robotics, both as a student (between 2016 and 2023) and as a teacher (2025). The research results can be used in the development of advanced training courses for labor (technology) teachers and their self-training, followed by teaching robotics to students.

Annotation: The article touches upon the current problem of developing comprehension skills for special lectures in English among philology students. Despite having a high general level of language proficiency, students face significant difficulties in understanding authentic academic discourse due to its specific lexical, syntactic, and discursive features. The study aims to assess linguistics students’ current comprehension skills for specialized English- language lectures and to develop a methodological task package for improving these skills. The subject of the study is the process of teaching comprehension of specialized English-language lectures to students of language universities. The conducted empirical research revealed problematic areas in the development of a range of specific comprehension skills for lectures on linguistic topics in English, stemming from linguistic and socio- cultural difficulties inherent in the spoken text. Based on the diagnostic results that identified typical deficits in comprehension skills, a methodological task package was developed to foster these skills. The article emphasizes the necessity of a systematic, strategy-based approach to teaching academic comprehension, which goes beyond general language training.

Annotation: The article examines the future managers’ preparedness for career planning in conditions of high economic and social uncertainty. The study examines career components and the internal and external aspects of career de- velopment. It analyzes existing approaches to defining the concept of “career”, clarifying its content in light of professional activities under conditions of high uncertainty. This study demonstrates the role of self-management as a prerequisite for a successful managerial career and the extent to which psychological readiness components shape the future competitiveness of managers. The empirical study was based on a survey of students in the Management program. Analysis of the results revealed real difficulties in students’ career planning: low stress tolerance and a lack of habit in using psychological self-regulation techniques. The article proposes pathways for improving career planning skills among future managers based on psychological methods. It also provides recommendations for revising university educational programs to increase management students’ readiness to plan their professional careers in conditions of high uncertainty.