Formation of students’ predictive skills in the process of pedagogical modeling

The article discusses the formation of students’ predictive skills, the presence of which is an important component of the professional competence of future specialists. In the context of pedagogical design, using a specific example, the authors analyze the use of the project method as an opportunity for intellectual and personal development of students of secondary vocational education. The importance of the chosen research topic is confirmed by the discussion of issues on priority areas of scientific and technological development of engineering personnel, emphasized on 02/06/2025 by President Putin V. V. at a videoconference meeting of the Council on Science and Education: “The main demand on the labor market in Russia in the coming years will be for specialists with secondary specialized education. That’s over 60%.” Special attention in the study is paid to the development of the structure of students’ predictive skills. The authors present groups of predictive skills – knowledge, technical and creative. Based on the developed structure of students’ predictive skills, the author’s interpretation reveals the essence of the studied skills, gives their characteristics by substantiating specific indicators. It seems that at the further stage of the dissertation research, the developed structure of predictive skills of students will be the basis for assessing the level of formation of students’ skills. The practical use of the project method underlying this process, according to the authors, allows students to form a set of predictive skills, which include the ability to formulate the purpose and hypothesis of the upcoming study of the object, a description of the expected result, discussion of the ideological concept of the object, the development of an algorithm for solving the problem, as well as the search for alternatives to the necessary solutions when There are other adjustments. Pedagogical support of the process is considered as a necessary condition for the effectiveness of the process of forming students’ predictive skills.