POSSIBILITIES OF USING VR TECHNOLOGIESIN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING PSYCHOLOGY TO STUDENTSIN PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CLASSES

When organizing the activities of schoolchildren in specialized psychological and pedagogical classes, it is necessary to equip them with the most advanced methods, organizing professional tests and acquiring specifi c experience through immersion in a new digital reality. Purpose of the work is to study the possibilities of using VR technologies in the process of teaching psychology to students in psychological and pedagogical classes. Research methods include analysis, synthesis, generalization, and questioning. Sample consists of psychology teachers of  classes of psychological and pedagogical orientation in the city of Tula and the Tula region. Main results. Possible areas for the use of VR technologies in teaching psychology are highlighted: visualization of abstract psychological concepts, virtual excursions to psychological laboratories, acquaintance with specifi c psychologists of the past and present, virtual participation in psychological experiments, virtual games for training professionally signifi cant skills; immersion in school reality; trying oneself as a teacher; creating lesson projects; using immersive methods; visiting specialized virtual exhibitions, bookstores; virtual visit to the university, etc. Conclusion. Using the capabilities of VR technologies can signifi cantly affect the increase in the effi ciency of the learning process and the development of cognitive interests of students in psychological and pedagogical classes in the specialized discipline of psychology.