CONSCIOUS GOAL SETTING AS A KEY COMPETENCE IN THE STUDENTS` REFLECTION OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article demonstrates the phenomenon of students` reflection of educational activity and goal setting as its key competence. Especially important is the reflective activity in the system of helping professions in the activity of a subject: it helps to understand and comprehend the content of the activity of other people, has a significant impact on the process of rendering help. The efficiency of the process of reflective self-management is impossible without the most important reflective skill: conscious goal setting. The article gives the results of the evaluation of students` reflective activity. Students have more difficulties with the following: awareness and ability to formulate goals; ability to highlight and formulate the key criteria of evaluation and questions on the content of the activity; ability to highlight steps to achieve the goals and criteria of their effectiveness. Organization of independent work of students management system contributes to the development of reflective activity of students.

Keywords

• reflection
• modernization of education
• students' independent work
• goal-setting