Abstract:

Problem statement:
The organization of an independent study of defectology students in high school on the basis of a competence-based approach gives an opportunity to promote a student`s personal advancement of career paths and the fostering of professionally significant qualities: intelligence, responsibility, creativity, communication, information culture, and self-education.

Purpose of the study:
1. To determine the motivational-value attitude of students to independent work through the development of their internal, external and procedural motivation.
2. To study the status of professionally significant qualities of students-defectologists: intelligence, responsibility, creativity, communication, information culture, ability to self-education.

Methods:
Methods of empirical research are: observation, pedagogical experiment, comparison, description, diagnostics (questioning, interviewing, testing, survey, etc.); and statistical treatment of pedagogical experiment data.

Results of the study:
The pedagogical conditions for the organization of defectology students` independent study on the basis of a competence-based approach ensure the effectiveness of future specialists` professional training adhering to a set of pedagogical conditions: ensuring students` motivational-value attitude in relation to an independent study thanks to developing their internal, external and procedural motivation; training courses projection as a system of professionally oriented objectives, an attainment of which allows to provide a sustainable transition from the student’s training activities to the professional activities of a future specialist; methodological equipment for students` training activities self-organization taking full advantage of ICT potentials; ensuring a control over students` independent study based on monitoring of the process of a future specialist`s professional realization.

References:
[1] Baidenko, V. Kompetencii v professionalnom obrazovanii (K osvoeniyu kompetentnostnogo podhoda) / V. Baidenko // Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii. - 2004. - № 11. - S. 3-13. [Baidenko, V. Competencies in vocational education (Towards the development of a competency-based approach). Baidenko // Higher education in Russia. - 2004. - No. 11. - S. 3-13.]
[2] ] Baidenko, V. Kompetencii v professionalnom obrazovanii (K osvoeniyu kompetentnostnogo podhoda) / V. Baidenko // Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii. - 2004. - № 11. - S. 3-13. [ Baidenko, V. Competencies in vocational education (Towards the development of a competency-based approach). Baidenko // Higher education in Russia. - 2004. - No. 11. - S. 3-13.]
[3] Gaponov G.M. Samostoyatelnaya rabota studentov [Tekst] / G.M. Gaponov // Organizaciya samostoyatelnoi raboty studentov. – Voronezh: Izd. Voronezhskogo un-ta, 1969. - 123 с. [Gaponov, G.M. Students' independent study [Text] / G.M. Gaponov // Organization of an independent study of students. - Voronezh: Ed. Voronezhsky University, 1969 .-- 123 p.]

Keywords:

An independent study of students, an approach.