Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The article deals with the application of the principle of management of the results in the pay system in General education. The author proposes to use the results of international educational monitoring PISA as indicators of the effectiveness of teaching staff in the analysis of labor indicators. It is shown that the results shown by Russian schoolchildren approximately correspond to the average results of the study as a whole, but still remain lower than the average for the group of OECD countries. Improvement of indicators is possible through the organization of elective classes, for which teachers should be awarded a stimulating salary Supplement, the amount of which depends on the results shown by students in the PISA study. The proposed approach will significantly improve the quality of General education and the efficiency of teaching staff.

Annotation: The article analyzes the causes of conflict in an educational institution, as well as a sense of anxiety as a factor in the escalation of conflict behavior. The relationship between upbringing and accumulation of anxiety is described. Features of anxious children are brought. The conclusion is made about the connection of anxiety and the suppressing system of education in conflict situations in an educational institution.

Annotation: The article reveals characteristics of interactive teaching a foreign language. It researches separate linguodidactic elements for interactive features. Particular attention is paid to the correlation of notions “communicative” and “interactive” and their interpretation in methodology. It concludes that there are signs of changing the language-teaching paradigm from communicative to interactive.

Annotation: The article views historic premises and present-day peculiarities of projecting national characters in ethnopsychology. It finds specificity and ways of studying national self-consciousness and ethno-stereotypes on this basis. It emphasizes prospectiveness of this method of studying ethnic groups and its being used as methodological base for a number of interdisciplinary spheres focusing on intercultural and international relationships. Interdisciplinary relations in the spectrum of issues of national character and ethnostereotypes are shown as well.

Annotation: In this article, the role of information-communicative technologies in the teaching a foreign language in an institute of higher education is considered. The aim of the author is to discover the enormous possibilities of information technologies which contribute to more effective mastering of a foreign language by students. This topic is relevant in the context of the ubiquitous use of information technologies and the urgent need to address to them when studying at a university. In the context of a competence approach to learning, the cognitive capabilities of computers, social networks and the Internet deserve priority attention. The author analyzes various forms, methods and results of using information technologies. The author makes a conclusion about the positive value of the application of information-communicative technologies and the successful formation of professional and personal competences. The main results indicate the increase in students’ motivation to learn a foreign language; overcoming the language barrier; development of speech competence; acquisition of cultural knowledge; development of creative abilities.