DIDACTIC AND METHODOLOGICAL BASES FOR ENSURING THE STUDY OF CHEMISTRY BY FUTURE SPECIALISTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

The article actualizes the research task of substantiating the didactic (content of the leading topics) and methodological (topics and objectives of laboratory work) foundations for ensuring general and professionally oriented competencies in the study of chemistry by future technology teachers and vocational education specialists. It is proposed to include the following topics in the content of training of higher education applicants majoring in 014.10 Secondary Education (Technology): basic concepts and laws of chemistry, periodic law and the D. Mendelieev’s periodic table of chemical elements; main classes of inorganic compounds; hydrocarbons; oxygen-containing organic compounds; non-trogen-containing organic compounds; general properties of high molecular weight compounds; chemical fibers; plastic masses. This block of the discipline includes laboratory work developed by the article author in accordance with the content of each topic. The article concludes the importance of chemical disciplines in the implementation of the educational profiles «Woodworking», «Agricultural Production», «Cooking», «Construction», «Energy», «Design and Modeling of Clothes», «Light Industry», «Design Basics», «Metalworking», etc. in high school in Ukraine.